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Microsoft Blocking Wine Users From Downloads Site
IamTheRealMike writes "In January, Microsoft announced a new anti-piracy initiative called
Genuine Advantage. From this summer onwards all users of Microsoft Downloads will be required to validate using either an ActiveX control or a standalone tool. Yesterday Ivan Leo Puoti, a Wine developer, discovered that the validation tool checks directly for Wine and bails out with a generic error when found. This is significant as it's not only the first time Microsoft has actively discriminated against users running their programs via Wine, but it's also the first time they've broken radio silence on the project."
> Oh - did you notice that last sentence - CONVICTED MONOPOLIST. They have to play by a different set of rules.
I guess logic, reason, and the truth don't enter into those rules.
Fact: the control works perfectly when Wine is emulating a recent version of windows.
You on the other hand are just an ignorant bill-basher.
the claimed "100 trillion" lost every year in software piracy
Either you've misread or mistyped that number, or it's hyperbole gone out of control. $100 trillion is more than 9 times the GDP of the U.S. (which itself is almost twice the total GDP of the second and third richest nations in the world). In fact, $100 trillion dollars might even be more than the GDP of the entire Earth. So it's quite unlikely that that number is anywhere even close to realistic.
What operating system do the system requirements on the box of Office you purchased state? I doubt "Crossover Office" is listed as a supported platform.