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Microsoft Blocking Wine Users From Downloads Site

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IamTheRealMike writes "In January, Microsoft announced a new anti-piracy 
initiative called Genuine Advantage. From this summer onwards all users 
of Microsoft Downloads will be required to validate using either an 
ActiveX control or a standalone tool. Yesterday Ivan Leo Puoti, a Wine 
developer, discovered that the validation tool checks directly for Wine 
and bails out with a generic error when found. This is significant as 
it's not only the first time Microsoft has actively discriminated 
against users running their programs via Wine, but it's also the first 
time they've broken radio silence on the project."

edoardo comar wrote:
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http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/05/02/17/1318212.shtml?tid=125&tid=109&tid=106
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> Microsoft Blocking Wine Users From Downloads Site
You can work around this by setting winver to winxp when running the validation
program.

Ivan.

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : wine-users-admin@winehq.org 
> De : Ivan Leo Puoti
> Envoy? : vendredi 18 f?vrier 2005 13:39
> ? : wine-users@winehq.com
> Objet : [Wine]/. : Microsoft Blocking Wine Users From Downloads Site
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> edoardo comar wrote:
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> http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/05/02/17/1318212.shtml?tid=125
> &tid=109&tid=106 
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> > Microsoft Blocking Wine Users From Downloads Site
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> You can work around this by setting winver to winxp when 
> running the validation program.
> 
> Ivan.
The nasty thing, IMHO, is that they _clearly_ stated that running M$ products 
outside of their 'os' is not tolerated anymore... you've got a
temporary
work-around for this, but that+(palladium|cisco nac) predicts darkness over
free-software !

Francis.