Talk:First beta of Windows API 'Wine' released

News?
I've moved this back to develop rather than adding a notnews tag. Personally I think Wine is obscure &mdash; as far as the general public is concerned. However, if fleshed out I think it could be news; it would have to include details about commercial competitors, and a gentle introduction to what open source is. Brianmc 09:40, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
 * While Wine is somewhat obscure this is a major release of an important  linux program. While I agree this tory needs work, I do not believe we need to mention its competitors. The story is about Wine being released, unless someone wants to include the fact the new CrossOver Office was also released, the story should just be about the event that is news. --Cspurrier 15:35, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
 * My concern was that most people, even those who are computer savvy enough to have heard of Linux, may well not have heard of the project. They may, on the other hand, have heard of some of the other projects that give Windows environments on a non-Windows OS.  Admittedly, I'm not familiar enough with Wine to come up with a good description that is accurate.  The revision currently in place reads well, but are there any other categories it can be added to?  I suppose a country or continent is out of the question as it is an OSS project that may have contributors from all over the world.  (Yes, you can interpret that as me having no objection to it being published, I'm sure it was a lot of work to get where they are and they deserve some press.)
 * As a final thought, how about listing some of the well-known applications that can now be run under Wine? Brianmc 16:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Would it be correct to say, The long-term goal of the Wine project is to provide an environment on a non-Windows computer that allows software which conforms to the published Windows application interface to operate without having to a copy of Windows? Sorry, as a non-user I can only go on what others tell me and I think all the GNU and API stuff will confuse the non-technical readers. I think the beta term has been publicised enough by the likes of Google for that not to be an issue. Brianmc 17:34, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Isn't the article name wrong?
The news is that the first beta of wine has been released. That this beta is called "0.9" is not news. Could this be renamed to "First beta of Wine software released"? or if the actual release will be called "1.0", it could be "First beta of Wine 1.0 software released". 85.28.66.218 17:09, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
 * How about Wine beta for commercial inspection &mdash; Windows applications without the operating system. Yes, if I didn't have to stay NPOV it'd be without the operating system you love to hate. Brianmc 17:38, 26 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Wine is not a windows emulator. Wine just provides the Windows API. Optimix 15:40, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Why WINE is news
I've noticed some discussion here that the release of the wine beta is simply not news because it is only an issue relevent to Linux users that desire to run windows programs. However, it is significant becuase as wine's ability to properly run windows programs is enhanced, it allows more users to switch to Linux while still retaining the ability to run windows software. This has significant implications because, if wine were to one day be able to flawlessly run windows software, it would open up the Linux/Open Source market and cause many users to switch over to Linux, a potential revolution in the way people use their computers and erosion of Microsoft's lead in the Operating System market.


 * Even better than telling us would be to tell the public - that's what the news article is for. I'll give it a go. Bill3 02:11, 27 October 2005 (UTC)


 * This is not news, wikinews is not just for computer geeks. And wine will never correctly run all windows software, microsoft will see to that.

Back to publish
In a few minutes I plan to move back to Publish. I think all concerns raised here have been addressed in the article, and the article has filled out, and October 26th will start to gather dust tomorrow. Bill3 02:48, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Looks horribly POV to me. "Grant these freedoms" indeed. --Sdfisher 03:35, 28 October 2005 (UTC)