[ale] Wine

[Christopher Fowler]

I take my question back.  I've just rebooted.  WINE should stay in beta
at lease another 10 years........


On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 09:27 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 09:09 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> > 
> >>they are also working on updating Wine...
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Crazy question.  Is there _any_ other program that could be the longest
> > program in history to be in Beta mode?  I played with Wine in 1995 and
> > it still was in beta mode then.  <flamebait>At some point you have to
> > simply just say its good enough for release.  No software product will
> > ever be perfect</flamebait>
> 
> I write perfect software all the time.  It always does exactly what I 
> code it to do.
> 
> The Enlightenment window manager might be another.  I've been using if 
> for a long while.  I'm using E17 right now and I don't think E16 ever 
> made it out of beta. :)
> 
> The interesting thing I find about all this is that most open source 
> betas are as stable or more then their commercial alternatives.  A very 
> good example is Linux.  For the longest time I was running the 
> development kernel tree.   I rarely had any problems.  Windows on the 
> other hand....
>