"I've been getting told that my recent review of KDE 4 wasn't fair because KDE 4 isn't really ready for prime time. My response: 'When is any program, especially an open-source program, ready?'
"I'm not making light of this criticism of my review. WINE, everyone's favorite way to run Windows programs on Linux, just reached 1.0 status after 15-years in the making. Its developers freely admit that while it's very, very good at what it does, it's far from perfect. None-the-less, many of us, including yours truly, have been using WINE for more than a decade.
"Is it ready? It's not only been ready, it's been useful for years. It's also only now a 1.0 release..."
