Re: Problem with InstallShield (Was Re: [Bug 629] Changed - Problemwith InstallShield: ole:CoTreatAsClass(stub), ole:CoGetClassObject)

Francois Gouget <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.wine.license
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 11 May 2002, Sean C. Farley wrote:

> On Fri, 10 May 2002 17:53, Francois Gouget wrote:
[...]
> > Yes it is. Apparently things ended very badly too. this is pretty sad.
> > And articles like the following make me think that Loki is not the
> > reason behind the drop in gaming related patches for Wine.
> >
> > http://www.linuxandmain.com/features/lokistory.html
>
> These problems were not apparent to the Linux community until close to
> Loki's demise.  All that people knew was that a company was porting
> games to Linux.

The point is: look at their sales figures:
7487 units via MacMillan
1500 direct sales
7000 units for Quake III Arena

I can believe that the total number of people interested in playing
games on Linux is on the order of 10.000 people. So Linux users did not
drop Wine en masse to play Loki games.


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Francois Gouget         [email protected]        http://fgouget.free.fr/
        War doesn't determine who's right.  War determines who's left.
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