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Wine Now Really Does Windows
FeeDBaCK writes: "As many of you may not know, Wine is currently being ported to Mingw for the ReactOS project. An update to the status of some of the Wine native Dlls under Windows was posted to the wine-devel mailing list. What this means is that there are now some Wine Dlls, which contain no Microsoft code, that appear to be interchangeable with the official Microsoft Dlls with no apparent loss in functionality. These Dlls include imagehlp.dll and riched32.dll. This comes as a great win for Wine, and brings them one step closer to bringing Windows applications to Linux." There's still a list of not-yet-functioning ones, but this is nice news.
That may be true today for your average home user. What about when a business gets, say, 10 computers, and don't get the Windows licenses to go with them? Sure, they could use the DLLs from their licensed computers, until the Microsoft Police come and bust them for using 10 illegal copies of the Windows DLLs.
I can't say that I don't give a fuck. I've just run out of fuck to give.