Ronald Robin wrote:
Hi! My name is Ronald and I was wondering if any of you guys out there can help me get in touch with Mr. Alexander Julliard or any of the leaders here in the WINE community. We've been trying to get in touch with him for months now and we have consistently failed to receive a response.
My company, SpecOps Labs, would like to discuss how we can contribute and work together with the WINE community. We believe we have a lot to contribute to the WINE community. However, without contact with any of the executives at WINEHQ, we are unable to do so.
We want to engage in an initial dialog with Mr. Julliard. Our CTO has already tried emailing him twice. It's possible we don't have the right contact information. We'd greatly appreciate it if someone here could help us out.
Hi Ronald,
First, allow me to say that it is a pleasure to finally hear from SpecOps directly. So far, all the communication between your company and this project have been through press releases on your part, and public responses on ours. I am hoping we will all find that direct communication is a better way to conduct both business and development.
I cannot answer for Alexandre regarding your inquiries with him. I am not even sure what "leaders in the WINE community" mean. As a free software project, wine has no executives, as it is not a body with a legally standing existence.
If the cooperation discussion you wish to conduct is of a technical nature, the best way to conduct them is here, on this list. If it is of a legal nature, I'm not really sure what your legal standing would be. Legally, Wine belongs to its copyright holders, many of them can be reached through this list, but not all of them. Neither Alexandre, nor any other single person or entity, can approve activities that require all copyright holder's consent. This includes, among other things I'm probably forgetting, selling the code and changing the code's license to something not LGPL compatible.
If what you are after is hired work to help you in development, you have several options. First of all, to the best of my knowledge, there are three companies that today have the know how to provide such services. These are CodeWeavers (http://www.codeweavers.com), TransGaming (http://www.transgaming.com/) who mostly work on their own proprietary variant of Wine, and my company, Lingnu (http://www.lingnu.com). There may also be other companies I am not aware of. Your best bet with any of those is to go through the "contact information" on their web site.
In addition to that, some of the wine hackers on this list also work as free lancers. I am sure that directing a request to this list asking for hired help will provide you with people willing to sell you their time and knowledge.
Hoping I've been helpful,
Shachar
-- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. http://www.lingnu.com/
