> 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.
No, they put their patches in the wineHQ cvs in a timely manner, not all at once. There are some parts which are not part of the wine tree (like the reboot, etc) which are closed source. If those parts will be open source, they won't make any money from the product. > 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... No, the crossover install doesn't require you any windows license whatsoever. You can simply copy dll's (from win9x, not win2k or NT) if you know which DLL's to copy, and if you know how to run the office setup (hint - it require good knowledge of msiexec), and then you need to do a reboot (not implemented yet in free wineHQ), do a whole lots of stuff in the post-install process... think it's that easy? :) > > 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 ?! Not the wine license, the crossover - it's 2 things. Wine itself won't help you much, so you'll need the crossover full package. You can install it on 1 machine (with unlimited users), but then you have to deal with the MS Office licenses. > 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? Many tried. If you want to have some fun, just try to install Explorer 5 with the standard wine. The installation is really difficult unless you know wine very well. > 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? Fishy? those guys DO work on the free wine. They DO give lots of their sources back (example: when the deal with Lindows broke, CodeWeavers gave back a 200K patch to make wine actually run with Office 2k). Thanks, Hetz ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
