Reinier Olislagers wrote:
If you're talking about running Windows Lazarus programs that use
libpq.dll etc under Wine, that could be a different story...
I wasn't thinking of the technical side, but rather of the time that MS
leaned heavily on somebody who was about to demonstrate using FoxPro
runtimes in an early VM on Linux to implement a multiuser database (they
sent at least one lawyer to the usergroup meeting). Now I accept that
it's probably difficult for MS to start dictating the terms under which
msvcrt may be used, but I can't help but feel that it's something which
is best avoided when alternatives exist.
I understand but I think you're talking about wine, which is not a VM
(as least as the term is commonly known - of course it is virtual in the
sense that Windows programs think they run on Windows while running on
*nix).
No, it was Foxpro (rather than Visual Foxpro) and I believe the platform
was Linux+Dosemu- but it's a long time ago so I could be wrong. This was
back when MS was their own (and everybody else's) worst enemy, and
whilst they're much more tolerant these days I still don't like pushing it.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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