Re: WineX and the AFPL

At 09:57 AM 6/2/02 -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote:
>of a DLL using new code.  Assuming Wine was under the LGPL its entire
>life, a company such as TransGaming could have still come along.  Yes?

I think it would be very hard. Because TG already started having a HUGE 
codebase available for free. If it had to program everything from scratch 
it would probably bee too expensive for the budget of a company like TG.

But you are right in one thing. What stopped DirectX development was the 
trust placed on TG. If the free coders would have just ignored TG promises 
and continued coding DirectX there would be no problem now. So maybe the 
mistake was also on the WineProject.

Lesson: never trust a company(or anyone).

Roland