Dear WineHQ,
Thanks for all the help with Windows programs and compatibilty with them. I've been going through some intellectual phases and some emotional phases. It's kind of stressful. However, a few years back, when I was first learning how to use Wine-staging and/or wine-devel, and or Wine, it as a really helpful time for me. The learning process made me feel sorta happy and I was really glad that being part of the Wine project helped to prove that sometimes, amazingly, good things that wouldn't have been possible, become possible, and some of the naysayers are proven wrong.
Probably one of the best things about that time of my life is that I was able to utilise the successes of Wine technology to help myself get back to work composing the styles of electronic music that I wanted to try to learn better.
Hopefully some of those advantages will be available to other users more, after we get through this awkward societal and historical phase.
Digital and technical culture has always been somewhat nurturing just as biological wildlife natural culture has always been somewhat nurturing too.
I will probably be taking a break from some of this software-oriented composing of music that has been so much of a source of joyful novelty. I am still going to be attempting to learn how to make better aesthetically pleasing music, but with different tools. It's probably a good choice also, because I can't quite handle the responsibility of learning how to do certain preferred maintennance tasks without so much stress and mishaps.
I'm still happy that electronic music is experiencing a vibrant renaissance and I feel like it's a form of a communal connection to a genuine fellowship of a good kind. One of the best things about that fellowship is the tendency for us to accept each other's abstract ways of thinking and acting and some of the abstract music is amazingly educational, in ways that seem like safe forms of transcendental learning.
Wine has been a part of that experience for me. I'm really glad you were there for me when I was lonely and trying not to get hurt in a partially dangerous status quo. I made it to some relative safety with the help from other helpful ones.
This year or 3 or four has been jamm packed with changes. I hope that we can maintain a rate of adaptive change which is not too fast for ourselves. Thankfully, I will probably be able to move my personality out of the way of those who are better at both work and play and nurturing with these systems.
Hopefully I will be able to maintain cultural compatiblity with the better parts of our shared cultural heritage. i will try.
This post may seem rather odd, but it seemed like the right time since I might not get another chance to say these things.
Thanks again.
