[K12OSN] Microsoft and Wine

[Bryant Patten]

a friend just forwarded this along to me... apologies if it has already 
been posted here

Bryant
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Microsoft Blocking Wine Users From Downloads Site

Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 17, @09:34AM
from the they-could-use-some dept.
IamTheRealMike writes

"In January, Microsoft announced a new anti-piracy
initiative called Genuine Advantage. From this summer onwards all users 
of
Microsoft Downloads will be required to validate using either an ActiveX
control or a standalone tool. Yesterday Ivan Leo Puoti, a Wine 
developer,
discovered that the validation tool checks directly for Wine and bails 
out
with a generic error when found. This is significant as it's not only 
the
first time Microsoft has actively discriminated against users running 
their
programs via Wine, but it's also the first time they've broken radio 
silence
on the project."