wine users - Sep 2008 - Re: Autocad 2008 and wine

This is your text, or you copied them from Autodesk forums??

Why I ask? Because Autodesk implement the newest Microsoft's technologies as
.NET 3.0 and they do not want to downgrade products only for reasons like
working on Wine...

I vote for that (working acad under Wine direct from Autodesk), but I do not
believe that will be happen!

Grof wrote:
> This is your text, or you copied them from Autodesk forums??
> 
> Why I ask? Because Autodesk implement the newest Microsoft's
technologies as .NET 3.0 and they do not want to downgrade products only for
reasons like working on Wine...
> 
> I vote for that (working acad under Wine direct from Autodesk), but I do
not believe that will be happen!
> 
> Here is (http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5780420) the
very interesting text about AutoCAD and Linux....

that thread has some amusing comments :)

> Sorry to say it, but as much as I'm not a big fan of
> Microsoft, the idea that Autodesk is going to to spend
> hundreds of millions of dollars only to accomodate a
> handful of Microsoft-haters and cheapskates, borders
> on delusional.

2008/9/18 Grof <wineforum-user at winehq.org>:
> This is your text, or you copied them from Autodesk forums??
>
My own words. I am unfamiliar with the AutoCAD forums, I am more into
Solidworks.
> Why I ask? Because Autodesk implement the newest Microsoft's
> technologies as .NET 3.0 and they do not want to downgrade products
> only for reasons like working on Wine...
>
Of course they will not rewrite the software in another technology.
However, had they known that running AutoCAD in Wine was important,
they might not have switched to .NET 3.0 before it runs in Wine.
Likewise, if you start letting them know _now_ that there is demand
for AutoCAD on Linux, then in the future they won't switch from .NET
3.0 to .NET 4.0 before it runs in Wine.
> I vote for that (working acad under Wine direct from Autodesk), but I do
> not believe that will be happen!
>
It won't happen anytime soon. But if we start letting them know now
that we need Linux support, future versions may well run in Wine when
they see that as a viable market.

Don't forget, every software manufacturer that releases Linux- or
Wine- compatible software sets precedent for the others. It also helps
more people move to Linux, which is a snowball effect.

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Yes, but please concentrate on parts of the text which talking about
implementations of MS Technology. MS and Autodesk has very strong colaborations
and support each oder!

Politics and money against users and wants!