wine users - Oct 2010 - will darwine a big threats to bill gates? or a big helper?

1)  darwine helps linux with enough applications on none-x86 machines.
user can drop windows/x86 away. 

it seems dar wine is a threat.

2) when linux people are used to windows applications on those machines.
microsoft claims to compile vista to those machines.
microsoft gets the world of those machines .

darwine helps microsoft without any thanks from bill gates.

what will happen next?

On 10/23/10 7:18 PM, bacchus wrote:
> 1)  darwine helps linux with enough applications on none-x86 machines.
> user can drop windows/x86 away.
No. Darwine is dead, and is for Mac OS X, not Linux. The underlying UNIX
part of Mac OS X is called "Darwin"--that's why porting Wine to
Mac OS X
was called "Darwine" (before Macs switched to x86
processors).
> 2) when linux people are used to windows applications on those machines.
> microsoft claims to compile vista to those machines.
> microsoft gets the world of those machines .
No they won't. a) Vista is (all but) dead. It's been replaced by Windows
7. b) By the time your first statement becomes true, it will be too late
for Windows. After all, if Linux (or whatever non-Windows OS they're
running) works for them, why bother switching to Windows, especially if
it has nothing to offer over it?

Chip

On 10/23/10 6:18 PM, bacchus wrote:
> 1)  darwine helps linux with enough applications on none-x86 machines.
> user can drop windows/x86 away.
>
Wine helps, Darwine which was a project to help migrate Wine to the 
Darwin (MacOSX) platform is DEAD.

James McKenzie
Happy Mac user since 2005

Darwine? Wasn't that project abandoned years ago?

Do you mean Wine?