Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 05:39:11PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > >> And the bottom line is this. It's not about you, just like it wasn't >> about me. As things stood, when MS did explicitly target Wine (in WGA) >> they actually went public with it. >> > > I've heard that Wine actually passed the WGA test with flying colours: > http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2005/08/08/Linux_OK_WGA/ > > They detected Wine using the standard "if you must" method - checking for HKLM\Software\Wine key. There was some discussions on whether we should just bypass it, and the consensus was a resonating "no".
But then Wine underwent a configuration change, and the key vanished. This was nothing to do with WGA. It was just a fairly planned change in Wine. Apparently, MS did not alter their WGA tests since, and so Wine, for the time being, passes. I should point out that just about every Wine developer knows of a way to detect whether you are running on Wine that cannot be blocked by Wine, so we are fairly sure we do not intend to start a cat and fish (or was it mouse and fish?) game over this point. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. Have you backed up today's work? http://www.lingnu.com/backup.html ================================================================= 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]
