Scott Ritchie’s WINE follow-up

Last Wednesday I posted a link to an article by Scott Ritchie, the person responsible for maintaining the WINE packages for Ubuntu, about how much WINE sucks. I promised a link to his follow-up article when he posted, and he finally published the promised follow-up. It turns out that his Comcast ‘net connection was down for three days. And Comcast called on day three to remind him that his bill needed to be paid online. Ouch!

Instead of simply complaining about the ways that the most popular software that lets Linux users run Windows programs sucks, he’s gone point by point and tells how he’s working to fix the issues.

He also states that his work on WINE is taking up more and more time, and he may be looking for donations to allow him to work on WINE on a full-time basis. I may not be able to donate much, but I’ll definitely contribute something to the cause.

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This is going to take the place of today’s omnibus links post. The only other thing I was going to blog this morning, other than the loss of Isaac Hayes, was a baseball-themed post that I decided not to post after all. I should have more to post tomorrow.

May your week suck much less than it can, and even less than the current incarnation of WINE does.