On Wednesday 02 November 2005 06:43 pm, Todd Walton wrote: > On 11/1/05, Richard Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > if you want the rest you do. the only real solution ive seen is to use > > wine or vmware, neither are getting away from M$ though maybe I missed > > that post??? > > I think what you're missing is that YOU DON'T HAVE TO OWN WINDOWS TO > RUN WINDOWS-ONLY SOFTWARE. No, really. You really don't. I'm > serious. Wine is one option. Crossover is another. For both of > those, you don't need to own a copy of Windows to legally run > Windows-only software. Wine is *not* Windows, which I think is > obvious, and Wine does not require you to have Windows, which you > don't seem to see. Wine is software. Free software at that. It's > been written completely from scratch, as in there is no Windows > involved in it. Same for Crossover. > > -todd > > No, really.
Don't wine and crossover both use a lot of of windows dlls? At least wine used to. Does anyone really know? I think you can use many dlls without licensing Windows, but don't quote me. Does anyone really know? Hmm, DARK, should be an acronym like IANAL. BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
