Friday, June 23, 2006, 9:51:28 AM, Kuba Ober wrote: > On Wednesday 21 June 2006 21:24, Vitaliy Margolen wrote: >> Wednesday, June 21, 2006, 11:41:32 AM, Andreas Mohr wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 07:27:28PM +0200, Kai Blin wrote: >> >> I wouldn't necessarily judge the whole list by just two negative >> >> reactions. It's interesting to see that with my wine experience there >> >> might be jobs out there working on something similar. (Not that I'm >> >> interested right now, I'm still at university...) >> >> >> >> I'm sure you're aware that in every open source project, there's people >> >> who oppose commercial software development for philosophical reasons. >> > >> > "proprietary" please, not "commercial". HUGE difference. >> >> I was talking more about nature of the job. I'm sure that lots of Wine code >> can "leak" into commercial product and wise versa.
> What's worse is that it already DID happen, ane the party involved didn't > think much of it (remember Poject David?) But this has little to do with the > matter at hand. > I doubt that Thinstall would really want to do anything illegal -- this > woul,d > ruin their reputation, and would likely expose them to a copyright > lawsuit(s). We can only level accusations after they do wrong. Why should we > a priori think of them as guilty? > I think that while Vitaliy has some firm moral (and otherwise) viewpoints, > the > Thinstall bashing of his was a bit much. > C'mon, they just politely asked if anyone is interested in a job. What's > wrong > with that? If I were looking for winapi hackers, I'd ask here myself. Jeez. I'm sorry that my intentions were misinterpreted because of the bad choice of words on my part. I didn't want to sound that negative. What I wanted to say, is that the nature of the Wine (windows internals) and Thinstall (internal knowledge of windows) are some what close. So it's kind of a thin line that I'm sure neither side wants to cross. As for the job offers - I wish you good luck finding the right person for the job. And for a Wine hacker to finally be able to pay his/hers bills. IMHO the project's developer's mailing list is not the right place to send such offers. PS: Again this is all IMHO and in no way should represent opinions of anyone else. Vitaliy.