“I am impressed with the work that TransGaming has done on the
Wine libraries. While it is true that they have not contributed
everything that they have developed to the Wine community, their
efforts have paid off for me and other gamers who have tried in
vain to get Windows-centric software running without a dual-boot
machine. I personally have no problem contributing to TransGaming’s
effort because it suits me personally. Does this model work with
the philosophy of free software development? Probably not, but
nether did the shareware movement that developed around the IBM DOS
systems of the mid-1980’s. That movement allowed game developers to
write games that pushed the limits of the available hardware,
created an industry that continues to increase the performance of
gaming hardware, and benefited those who wrote the games by giving
them a source of income.“The issue of contributing back to the community always shadows
every open-source project. Transgaming does contribute back, but
there are restrictions…”
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