Hi David WINE is not "sort of virtualization software". It is a native Linux > implementation of the standard-documented Win32 API, combined with a > program for loading Win32 executables. Don't know of any license issues > at the WINE end of things - it's FOSS software. > > It can run multiple Windows programs at the same time, but it's not > running Windows. > > I use IEs4Linux to run IE5, 5.5 and 6.0 under Linux. Works quite well. > Other folk use WINE for running other Win32 programs under Linux. >
Yeah, I know, I sort of expressed it badly. I know that WINE is not a virtualization software, I just tried (sloppily) to state it in a more simple way (and failed, obviously). For someone who's not that experienced in the lingo, your explanation above probably doesn's say that much, so I tried to pull off something simpler. I should have written something more along the lines "It's not virtualization, but it allows you to run some Windows-programs on other environments without having Windows installed." For the lay-user, I would guess that it probably doesn't matter what you call it though... :-) As for the licensing issues, to clarify: Yes, of course WINE is Open Source. I was talking about IE, which is not. I don't know how the license for the various versions of IE looks, but even if it's free (as in free beer), you might not be allowed to run it outside of the Windows environment. That's all I'm saying. Take care! //emil ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
