Well. you should read the license of wine. I can tell you this... Since they put the DLL's on their website, avaiable to download, and without an excluding license... they can't do anything. WHAT you instll with wine is ONLY your responability. Wine, itself, is not ilegal... in fact I think M$ should thank wine... or at least windows-emulators for linux. I, for instance, refuse to use WINDOWS... I just don't like it. but I like, instead, many other apis that are only avaiable for windows... such as Office (and don't tell me OO.org is the same because it's not!!!!) so, I can buy M$ office and use it under wine... They get to sell office... I mean... I use linux, if something is not avaiable for linux I don't use it... Also... it could lower the windows sales... but it will increase other apis sales... I think they should consider making one of their own... or even making their apis for linux... (rpm installs, or CVS installs, like wineX) I think that would open a whole new market to them. El s?b, 26 de 04 de 2003 a las 11:54, Joris Huizer escribi?:> Hello everybody, > > I have the following question: as most of us know, MS > is kind of paranoid about people copying and/or > stealing their products (maybe because they themselves > have done it so much ? ) > > As wine is implementing windows dlls and stuff - how > can it stay legal (assuming MS 's using every possible > legal method to prevent any copying) ? > > Just a question which seems a bit troubling... I'm > probably missing something obvious ! > > regards, > > Joris > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. > http://search.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.com > http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users-- Alan Bort Linux Registered User 298277 -Country Manager- [http://counter.li.org] [ http://www.linuxquestions.org ] Username: Ciccio [ http://es.tldp.org ] Ciccio.-
Hello everybody, I have the following question: as most of us know, MS is kind of paranoid about people copying and/or stealing their products (maybe because they themselves have done it so much ? ) As wine is implementing windows dlls and stuff - how can it stay legal (assuming MS 's using every possible legal method to prevent any copying) ? Just a question which seems a bit troubling... I'm probably missing something obvious ! regards, Joris __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com
On 04/26/03 07:54 AM, Joris Huizer sat at the `puter and typed:> Hello everybody, > > I have the following question: as most of us know, MS > is kind of paranoid about people copying and/or > stealing their products (maybe because they themselves > have done it so much ? ) > > As wine is implementing windows dlls and stuff - how > can it stay legal (assuming MS 's using every possible > legal method to prevent any copying) ? > > Just a question which seems a bit troubling... I'm > probably missing something obvious !I sincerely doubt that MS could find a legal let to stand on. First of all, there are lots of SW vendors that could care less where you run their stuff, so long as you pay for it and don't copy it or install it on more systems than you have license for. As I understand it, the dll implementations present in wine are actually implemented based on the limited information that MS has made available publicly anyway. Much of it is done by trial and error to fix the occasional misinterpretation (misinformation?) of the way the interface should work. They can give you a hard time about running their Apps on a non-windoze OS, but they can't tell you where to run another vendors apps. So, Yeah. I think it will always be considered legal. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc wine@keyslapper.org Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.
Wine is not under any control of microsoft because it has not code from microsoft. If reimplemnting an api would be ileagle all the emulators would be ileagle thats more then 50 programs some of them commercel. I do not think microsoft can do anything about it. Anyway this subject belongs to wine-licence@winehq.com maybe you can even find all the answers you are looking for in it's archive: http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-license/ Hatky. --- Joris Huizer <joris_huizer@yahoo.com> wrote:> Hello everybody, > > I have the following question: as most of us know, > MS > is kind of paranoid about people copying and/or > stealing their products (maybe because they > themselves > have done it so much ? ) > > As wine is implementing windows dlls and stuff - how > can it stay legal (assuming MS 's using every > possible > legal method to prevent any copying) ? > > Just a question which seems a bit troubling... I'm > probably missing something obvious ! > > regards, > > Joris > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. > http://search.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.com > http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users__________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com