Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes

Re:Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes by lotsofcows on Friday July 19, 2013 @04:52AM (#6068977)

I'm not fighting for a free, open OS. I'm supporting a good balance of usable tools in a capitalist system. OSX is the most usable tool I've been fortunate enough to be able to afford. Given a choice for important data, I'll also go with open source. My OS doesn't fall into that requirement - only the apps that run on it.

The "hacker" in "hacker news" has little to do with any traditional meaning of hacker. I'm not sure why it's in there at all really.

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Re:Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes by rsynnott on Friday July 19, 2013 @08:56AM (#6069812)

> The "hacker" in "hacker news" has little to do with any traditional meaning of hacker.

Well, the _traditional_ meaning would largely predate the availability of Linux, anyway...

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Re:Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes by lrem on Friday July 19, 2013 @04:58AM (#6068992)

Oh, it is exactly the traditional meaning. Just that instead of hacking on some OSS projects, people here tend to hack on their own (hopefully) commercial stuff. But hacking remains.

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Re:Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes by lotsofcows on Friday July 19, 2013 @07:13AM (#6069412)

Hacking has a strong connotation with openness. Look at the outcry when Bill Gates complained about people copying his stuff. Hacking is about stretching things beyond their designed limits. Who the "things" belong to is usually irrelevant.

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Re:Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes by lotsofcows on Friday July 19, 2013 @07:11AM (#6069404)

That "also" should have been an "always".

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