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Catching up with Wine

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-isn't-that-strange dept.

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 ;)

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  1. This story is a duplicate. by thesolo · · Score: 3, Informative

    This was posted yesterday afternoon, right here:
    http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/20 45200&mode=thread&tid=109&tid=125.

  2. What monopoly? by dsz · · Score: 3, Informative
    Hmm. If that's not a big hunk of evidence in an anti-trust case against Microsoft, I'm not sure what would be.


    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?

  3. WINE is also not a properly licensed MS OS. by Moderation+abuser · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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