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If you don’t mind me asking, why did you stop? I’ve been fascinated with Wine development lately and love what Codeweavers do.
by mindwok 5y ago
If you don’t mind me asking, why did you stop? I’ve been fascinated with Wine development lately and love what Codeweavers do.
- mike_hearn 5y agoBecause I was graduating university and needed a full time job. Around that time Google offered me a position, which came with an office (and therefore, new friends to make, an important consideration if you're 22). This was 2006 and there were only about 5000 people in Google engineering worldwide, so it was quite a prestigious offer. Friends/family actually couldn't quite believe it because the media was full of stories about how selective they were. The company's reputation was stellar, the pay was good and so it made sense. Also, CodeWeavers had started getting into the Mac port around that time. The main reason I worked on Wine was to try and support the free Linux desktop. Writing code to benefit Apple didn't appeal. I figured if that was the choice I may as well just go work on something fully proprietary but that worked on Linux anyway (like ... Google's web apps).