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[DJA]

boblq wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 November 2005 06:43 pm, Todd Walton wrote:
> 
>>On 11/1/05, Richard Reynolds <richard.reynolds at usa.net> 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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       ~DJA.