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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 don't understand why the folks at WINE resist the requests to make their code Open Source? It would allow Win32 developers to code with WINE in mind which in turn would enhance the Linux user experience.
Please think about it!
...I guess thats one way to stop emulation.
Mr. Bloggers:
Hey Anonymous Coward and Slashdot Editor, WHAT DO YOU THINK I'm about to say?
Mr. Bloggers:
Now that I'm wearing my green sweater, because I'm about to smash your fingers with the butt of my gun, let's ask Trolly(TM) what it wants to say. Troll-y? Hello, Troll-y where are you?
Troll-y:
*F#@$BLING sh*BLING... f*BLING as*BLING
Mr. Bloggers:
My oh my, you sound angry! What do you want to say to all of slashdot about Wine, Troll-y?
Troll-y:
fu*BLING as*BLING ho*BLING damnit Wine Is Not An Emulator! fu*BLING shi*BLING!
Mr. Bloggers:
And what do we do to bad journalists, Mr. Goa^H^H^HSaturday?
Goa^H^H^HSaturday:
We throw 'dem into der oven and bake them!
*everyone cheers*
But I think some people missed the whole point. Have you ever worked with Foxpro, or it's B@STARD CLONE, Visual? Now don't get me wrong, I don't build DB's for a living, but I do support PC's, and VFP sucks! So the real question here is Why would you??
Wow. From your URL I'd almost think you actually managed to pass the entrance criteria for higher education, but on further consideration I assume that you've l33tly h4x0r4d the box3n and you are in fact stealing that webspace.
Say, would your administrator be interested to know that you trade copyright material over P2P without a licence from the copyright holder?
It means that CmdrTaco carefully avoids to read his own web site. I guess it speaks volume about what he thinks of the rest of us. :-)
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