Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Rainer Weikusat Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system Subject: Re: Petition for WINE Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:21:13 +0100 Lines: 26 Message-ID: <87629vbvli.fsf@sapphire.mobileactivedefense.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: individual.net n+5W1HAD3dki9OL5TM8Gqg8r5s22WZoQboTx5ZTmMBpIUt8yj2Zc+AbtbwdnUIAzs= Cancel-Lock: sha1:Q4E4ThZ58pgn+y+i04E9bznFYfg= sha1:fTnuQXfuIiLHx653pgQiy2BmigA= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.development.system:449 Tim Roberts writes: > Tim Ritberg wrote: >> >>Am 09.07.2012 18:09, schrieb Lew Pitcher: >>> On Monday 09 July 2012 11:09, in comp.os.linux.development.system, >>> tim@server.invalid wrote: >>> >>> [snipped link to petition to ask winehq to somehow cut off reactos] >> >>No no, I think this petition wants reactos developers should join Wine >>project. > > Let me point out some of the flaws in this plan. > > 1. Yours is a religious argument, not a technical argument. Windows is > provably NOT a "horrible OS". What people precisely consider to be 'a horrible OS' is very much a matter of opinion. > Marketing alone is not sufficient to explain 95% market share. And '95% market share' is no indication of any particular quality (there earth wasn't flat by the time '95%' of all people were still convinced that it was). Also, people don't buy Windows. They get it bundled with hardware they buy.