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Catching up with Wine
An anonymous reader writes "TransGaming's announcement of the availability of WineX 3.0 got a lot of pixel dust, but that wasn't the only recent news about WINE. The Microsoft monopoly also reached out to touch the project when Whil Hentzen, a leading proponent of Visual FoxPro (VFP) development on Linux, was contacted by an Microsoft manager and told it was a violation of the VFP EULA to run it on Linux." I guess thats one way to stop emulation. update Oh well, its a dupe. Whatever, it gives people something to complain about I guess ;)
I mean look.. the icon on the right is clearly shows that this current article is not about wine.. (i.e. there is no Wine Icon).. and is really about the quip about MS using EULA violations to stem emulators of windows. The CD icon must mean comedy or something.. i'm not too sure.. not about WINE though.. definately not.
Ok maybe its just taco feeling his article post rate was lowering and need to throw something in.
Who makes you Sig?
Forunately, I never pay for software. Or books. Or movies. Or games. Or music. Thank god for p2p :)
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my other sig is a 500 page novel
Aparently he is a person who can string a few words together to form sentences. You, on the other hand, certainly do appear to be "retarted". Which I assume means that you have been covered in a layer of sticky pie filling and pastry, which would explain why you're unable to type properly.
That, or you're just a retard. Either way, it sucks to be you.
Yeah, like complaining about it being a dupe...
Oh, wait, was my post self-redundant?
-Daniel.
It MUST be a double bluff. MS want to create a stink about it so MORE people will run Visual Fox Pro on Lenux, thus delaying the development of several OSS projects.
.net and data access. One guy asked a question starting:
True Story:
I was at a MS seminar, and a MS employee was presenting a demo on
"I'm a developer with Visual Fox Pro..."
The MS guy just replied:
"I'm sorry."
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and you WILL start seeing things like EULAs that require you to give up your children
I've seen this at the top of an EULA (quote from memory so it's probably not completely accurate:
It's important that you read this, especially the part about your firstborn child
I think it was for the crossover plugin. I laughed so hard I almost splurted coffe all over my keyboard. And for once I actually read the complete EULA to see if there was any more fun in there, sadly it wasn't
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