Wine/Cedega and fedora 3

[Sean]

On Tue, December 7, 2004 5:19 pm, Ben Steeves said:
>
> Sadly, when developers (be they kernel or app) take that stance,
> ultimately it's the USERS who lose.  And that mindset is a huge
> hurdle to widespread adoption of Linux.
>

Huh?  Linux does have widespread adoption.  Mac, BSD, and others haven't
been accused of such a mindset and don't have MS Windows like numbers
either.  People really over estimate this "mindset" issue and its
importance as the reason Linux hasn't dominated the desktop market yet.

Personally, i'm getting tired of people criticising the developers
attitudes.   Developers work for *their own* users, and most are doing a
good job.   If a developer doesn't bend over backwards to accomodate
someone elses needs, then he's obviously concluded that the effort would
not benefit *his* user base.  period.  That is the way open source has
worked to make Linux as successful as it has become today.  Why lament a
process that has worked so well?

Sean