Re: VMWare / Wine
- From: Derek Broughton <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:11:46 -0400
Matthew Flaschen wrote:
Derek Broughton wrote:
Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:
I'll tell you what I thing are the main differences between Wine (and
its forks : Cedega and CrossOverOffice) and VMware :
Wine :
- no need for windows license
Legally, or practically? Many things you might run under Wine are
_legally_ required to have a Windows license.
That's simply not true.
You keep doing that to me. It IS true.
Components of Windows need a Windows license,
but there's a whole lot of Windows software that isn't even put out by
Microsoft.
Of course there is. I didn't say you couldn't run any software under Wine.
In fact lots of good software does run under Wine, and legally (at least in
my non-legal opinion), too.
However, as I said, _many_ applications are legally required to have a
Windows license. I think you'll find that almost all Microsoft software
EULAs specifically require you to have a Windows license, plus any software
that requires any DLLs or fonts or any other Windows component, that has
not been freely released by Microsoft.
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derek
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