Linux.ie: Interview with Ulrich Weigand, WINE developer | Linux Today

Linux.ie: Interview with Ulrich Weigand, WINE developer

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 26, 1999

[ Thanks to Ken Guest
for this link. ]

“Ulrich Weigand is the most prominent developer working on the
core of the WINE Windows Emulator. We tracked him down and asked a
few questions…”

“Do you ever get upset when yet anyother obscure feature of some
Windows program broke Wine?…”

“No 🙂 In fact, this is just what I find interesting: finding
out just how Windows works, exactly. [ B.t.w. it’s features of
Windows that are the problem, not features of Windows apps …
]”

“Has the recent help from Corel helped much in development?”

“Yes, definitely. They have been (publicly) involved now for
about a year; a quick check of the ChangeLog reveals that about
15-20% of all CVS check-ins during that year was code provided by
Corel (where the ratio appears to go up quite a bit lately
…).”

Complete
Interview

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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