boblq wrote:
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?
BobLQ
Even is you needed some of Windows' DLL's, so what? Licensing is not an
issue because if you *need* a Windows-only application, you already have
Windows. That's a presumption based on my observation in the real world:
People who feel they must use an OS-native application already have the OS.
And if you have the OS on the original media, you have a license to use
any or part of it.
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