Quoting Hetz Ben-Hamo, from the post of Mon, 23 Dec: > > from all that I am reading, it sounds like XOO does nothing special > > to wine itself, only eases the installation. I'm not a unix newbie > > so I thought I could get office to run on the daily WINE I get on > > Hardly... > > CrossOver is much more then some wine-on-steroids. It's a version of > wine with some unreleased patches (will be released a bit later), and > it got some mechanism that is not available in the standard wine. >
so it's an LGPL product that I buy with patches but no source as binary-only? It sounds terribly illegal to me for them to do that, and against my ideals to give them money for it. > Just an example: If you want to install MS Office, then in the end > you'll need to: 1. do a simulate "reboot" of wine. 2. Register quite > a few DLL's. 3. Do association of file extension to various Linux > applications (example - doc, .xls to your Netscape/Mozilla/Kmail) 4. > Collect icons from various programs and convert them to XPM format > etc... I could not care less about icons, and I can even live without associations. what's with the DLL registering, doesn't the install process of office take care of it? I thought I just copy the system directory of my win2k partition and be good to go... I guess I am getting funny stares from all the other list members here... > > Current free wine cannot do any of the above by itself. You can look > at the mailing list of the wine-devel to see that the "reboot" process > it starting to be written by Schachar... ok then... say I buy XOO for 200 shekels, no I see they went up to 250 shekels... can I really only install it on a single machine and not many? doesn't that violate the wine license again ?! > > The latest version of CrossOver office is also running MS Access > 97,2000 and Office XP. None of those programs runnning well with the > free wine (unless you want to start copying DLL's from Windows and > over-come the "reboot" problems. I'd love to know what that involves, because I know that some people DID manage to do it on their own, so how bad can it be? hasn't anyone released a HOWTO or even a free script to do those things? bahh. lucky I'm no conspiracist, the whole wine/codeweavers deal smells fishy to me... the Free alternative to a closed product turns out to be closed as well, how rediculous is that? Ira. -- Mister fantastique bombastique Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
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