Wine/Cedega and fedora 3

[Sean]

On Wed, December 8, 2004 10:44 am, Sean Middleditch said:

[snip]

Sean,

You seem to want the entire Linux world to Just Get Along[tm] and have
everyone play by the same rules so that proprietary app vendors lives
would
be a little easier.   But there is no way to impose such a solution across
the entire spectrum.

The truth is, the Linux development model is messy with diverse groups of
developers in a wild web of cooperation and competition.  This model is
incredibly powerful and has created the huge success that we have today.
The fact that there are some interoperability issues is hardly surprising,
but their resolution is usually not really that difficult.

Nobody is _ever_ going to get all the people involved in Linux to agree to
anything.   The beauty of open source is, you don't have to get people to
agree, you have the power to do what you want.

Perhaps you'll have some luck convincing RedHat to include every library
ever developed for ever.   But i'm not sure the demand for it is as great
as you think.  Nor would it help on other distributions that refuse to
implement that plan.

Sticking with a long lived distribution really does minimize the problems
for users.  As for proprietary application vendors, the burden imposed by
the Linux landscape really isn't insurmountable.   They have a number of
options on how to provide their products.

Cheers,
Sean