VMWare / Wine

[Derek Broughton]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:
>> 
>>> I'll tell you what I thing are the main differences between Wine (and
>>> its forks : Cedega and CrossOverOffice) and VMware :
>>>
>>> Wine :
>>> - no need for windows license
>> 
>> Legally, or practically?  Many things you might run under Wine are
>> _legally_ required to have a Windows license.
> 
> That's simply not true.  

You keep doing that to me.  It IS true.

> Components of Windows need a Windows license, 
> but there's a whole lot of Windows software that isn't even put out by
> Microsoft.

Of course there is.  I didn't say you couldn't run any software under Wine. 
In fact lots of good software does run under Wine, and legally (at least in
my non-legal opinion), too.

However, as I said, _many_ applications are legally required to have a
Windows license.  I think you'll find that almost all Microsoft software
EULAs specifically require you to have a Windows license, plus any software
that requires any DLLs or fonts or any other Windows component, that has
not been freely released by Microsoft.
-- 
derek