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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 ;)
This was posted yesterday afternoon, right here:0 45200&mode=thread&tid=109&tid=125.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/2
..by telling him he is an idiot, and he doesn't understand it.
Or by calling your software X IS _NOT_ Y, and people still call it Y.
Again, WINE is translating windows system calls to X11 equivalents.
But seriously - here's a perfect example of the software-side of Microsoft preventing other companies from competing with the OS-side. How is it possible that they're still pulling this crap after years and years?
Bah! Is it even worth getting riled up anymore?
Some of the EULAs require that the software be run on a fully licensed microsoft operating system. IIRC some of the EULAs even go as far as to require that you access the software *from* a fully licensed microsoft operating system.
Just because you have paid for a license to use some software doesn't mean you can use it any way you like. Towel boy.
Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.
I hate to say it but people that complain about an EULA, should also complain about GPL, and other source code licenses. It's frustrating to hear hypocrisy and judgement based on the fact that Microsoft is for-profit and not hear the same for similar agreements in the open source world.
This has been said many times, and I'll say it again: the GPL is *NOT* a EULA. You don't have to agree to it at all in order to use the software. Repeat after me, the GPL is not a usage license, it is a copyright license! The GPL only affects you if you want to re-distrubute the software (a right you would not otherwise have).
If you don't agree to the EULA you can't even use the software you bought, and as another poster pointed out, you are unlikely to get your money back. If you don't agree to the GPL then you can still use the software to your heart's content, you just can't give it away to any one else - and not because the GPL forbids it, but because copyright law forbids it.