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Debian And WineX

Posted by Hemos on from the i-wanna-install dept.

fdsa writes "After a heated debate, and under some pressure by TransGaming, an 'intent to package' WineX from sourceforge CVS for (non-free) Debian has been withdrawn. The message provides a good summary of the recent Wine chaos, and notes how WineX is effectively under a different license than stated. Here's a mail from their CEO Gavriel State on the issue."

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  1. Microsoft .NET and UNIX by coryboehne · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Funny enough even the .NET framework, in particular the subset of the CLR (Common Language Runtime), CLI (Common Language Infrastructure). Check out go-mono.com for more info on this, in addition to this microsoft and corel have announced plans some time ago to make and implementation of the C# (C sharp) and the CLI available for BSD. Microsoft and open source, who would have ever guessed?