Microsoft Blocking Wine Users From Downloads Site

Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 17, 2005 @02:34AM from the they-could-use-some dept.

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."

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Worse by DoctorSlicer · 2005-02-17 02:37 · Score: 0, Redundant

Microsoft is only making things worse for themselves in the long run.
Windows in Linux ? by a1programmer · 2005-02-17 02:43 · Score: 0, Redundant

Why would someone need to get to windowsupdate from linux? Also, why would anyone run windows, using wine, from linux? Do people do that?
Re:bah by Phiu-x · 2005-02-17 06:20 · Score: 0, Redundant

Wine Is Not an Emulator

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