From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 21:44:13 -0400 Message-ID: <87shzavz0y.fsf@netris.org> References: <20160328215516.GA27719@protected.rcdrun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51734) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akihx-0005nt-Mk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 21:44:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akihu-0002ws-CZ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 21:44:37 -0400 Received: from world.peace.net ([50.252.239.5]:60222) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akihu-0002wo-8b for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 21:44:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20160328215516.GA27719@protected.rcdrun.com> (Jean Louis's message of "Mon, 28 Mar 2016 23:55:16 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Jean Louis Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi, I haven't yet looked closely at MAME, but for now I wanted to address the question of WINE. Jean Louis writes: > Put yourself in the view point of free software user. What such user is > going to do with WINE? WINE has at least one useful purpose for a free software developer: to help them develop and test Windows ports of their software compiled with MingW. For example, it is important for GNU Guile to run on Windows because programs that already depend on Guile (e.g. GNU Lilypond), and programs that we hope will use Guile in the future (e.g. GNU Emacs) include ports for Windows. The Windows ports of both of the aforementioned programs are useful for introducing the free software movement to Windows users. I would also note that WINE is included in both Trisquel and Parabola. * * * * * MAME is a different case. FWIW, here's a Parabola ticket on the question of MAME: https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/961 I'd like to know if there are any free programs that can be run under MAME and cannot be run natively on GNU/Linux. Can anyone answer this question? Thanks, Mark