Installing WordPerfect (was Re:RPM compatability)

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 04:47:38PM +0000, Christopher Browne wrote:
> That may seem obvious in retrospect; at the time, they had a lot of
> programmers with heavy MSFT knowledge, and that makes WINE attractive
> to leverage that knowledge, rather than them having to either:
> 
> a) Create a second product, because "WP for Unix" would have great
> gobs of it that would be completely separately developed,

But there was already WP 5.1 code for unix running with an X interface
for Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, SCO Unix, and Xenix.  It wasn't as if they were
starting from scratch.  Except of course WP6.0 for windows was a mess,
and if anyone thought taking that windows mess and using wine to make it
run on linux was a good idea, well bad idea plus an API emulation layer
does not equal good idea.

> b) Build or buy something akin to Bristol's "emulation of Windows on Unix."
> 
> To pick WINE as a version of strategy b) isn't *clearly* stupid.

Given the fact the unix code had already been developed before, it
really was a stupid idea.  No question about it.

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