[K12OSN] Microsoft and Wine

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On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Doug Simpson wrote:

> Ol' Billy's getting worried!

surprise it took him this long to figure out how to do it.

bet the "hack" around it is ready in less than a week!!!

Bob


>
> Doug Simpson
> Technology Specialist
> DeQueen Public Schools
> DeQueen, AR 71832
> simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
> Tux for President!
>
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Bryant Patten wrote:
>
> > a friend just forwarded this along to me... apologies if it has already
> > been posted here
> >
> > Bryant
> > ----
> >
> > 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."
> >
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