SpecOps Labs offers $10,000 to Emulator Developers

mparaz writes "SpecOps Labs, the makers of the "David" Windows emulator previously accused of ripping off WINE, are offering $10,000 to a team who can build a Windows XP emulator in 15 days. " This whole thing reads really strangely to me.

Comments

Re:10K, Thats all?

[AKAImBatman]

1. System has no proprietary software imbedded / required.

This is important to the contest, because WINE *can* use Windows DLLs. If you patch in a Windows DLL to get the code working, then that's considered cheating.

2. System is stable.

Whatever.

3. MS-XP compatible modules / functions are working as expected.

i.e. The program doesn't have oddities like unimplemented dialog boxes, or images that don't get loaded. The complete API used by the program must function.

4. System becomes the property of SpecOpS Laboratories.

They will take your changes and make them their own, but you get the $10,000. Whatever.

extremely vague.

I agree. Anyone looking to take up this challenge should contact SpecOps Labs and first verify the details of the contest. It would suck to pick something like Microsoft Calculator to implement only to have SpecOps say that it doesn't count. Of course, maybe nothing counts. Maybe they'll reject all entries on some technicality expecting to pick up the code when the developers give up and give their changes to the WINE project. *shrug*