My PLplot testing effort with Wine has clearly benefited from the Wine developer philosophy that _any_ difference from Microsoft Windows behaviour is a Wine bug. But that philosophy does extend uncomfortably far. For example, see http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/zerowine-tryout/index.php?title=VirusDB which keeps track of which Windows viruses "work" properly on Wine.
I was first amused, then appalled by this work, but my final attitude was accepting because indeed it is not Wine developer's job to implement a more comprehensive security model for Microsoft Windows. Instead, they focus on mimicking Windows exactly including its bad current security model. Of course, if/when that security model is improved by Microsoft, I am sure the Wine developers would be more than happy to update Wine accordingly. Meanwhile, those like me who run Wine should be just as cautious as Microsoft Windows users concerning the sources of the downloaded Windows apps that we run. For example, the above URL came up during the discussion of a sad tale on the Wine development list where a user had inadvertently been running a virus-infected app on Wine with no consequences until a Wine update from Ubuntu. That update improved Wine compatibility with Windows so much that the virus started to work, and he ended up infecting all Windows machines on his network with the virus! Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. BEST VALUE: New Multi-Library Power Pack includes Mobile, Cloud, Java, and UX Design. Lowest price ever! Ends 9/20/13. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
