Wine HQ: Interview with Marcus Meissner | Linux Today

Wine HQ: Interview with Marcus Meissner

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 22, 2003

[ Thanks to Brian Vincent for this
link. ]

“Marcus Meissner’s involvement with Wine stretches all the way
back to 1995. He’s been responsible for significant contributions
including CUPS printing support, DirectDraw, and COM
architecture.

“Marcus was born in 1973 and currently lives in Erlangen,
Germany. He graduated from the University of Erlangen in 1997 with
a degree in computer science and went to work for Caldera. Now he
works as a developer for SuSE. We caught up recently with him to
ask about the various parts of Wine he’s been involved with.

BV: Next Alexandre, you’ve been active with Wine the
longest. Are there any areas of Wine you haven’t worked
on?

Marcus: Well, a lot of areas 😉 I did not work on GDI,
USER and higher level GUI stuff, except for occasional small
bugfixes. I bugfix whatever I encounter and am able to…”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

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