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From: Mark Warner on 1 Aug 2010 15:24 Bear Bottoms wrote: > Mark Warnerbee - Leader of the Resistance wrote: >> >> You Sir have answered nothing. You proclaimed Wine to be 'program >> stealing software'. I asked. How does Wine steal software? > > Wine takes software that was not designed to be run in Linux and semi- > ports it to be able to run in Linux. Absolutely not true. Wine does absolutely nothing to application software. What it does do is supply the basic Windows API layers necessary for Windows programs to run on Linux. Again, the applications themselves are untouched -- they run in wine exactly as they do in Windows. -- Mark Warner MEPIS Linux Registered Linux User #415318 ....lose .inhibitions when replying
From: Mark Warner on 1 Aug 2010 16:18 Bear Bottoms wrote: > Mark Warner wrote: >> Bear Bottoms wrote: >>> >>> Wine takes software that was not designed to be run in Linux and semi- >>> ports it to be able to run in Linux. >> >> Wine does absolutely nothing to application software. What it does do is >> supply the basic Windows API layers necessary for Windows programs to >> run on Linux. Again, the applications themselves are untouched -- they >> run in wine exactly as they do in Windows. > > I never said that it does anything to the code of the software. You said it "semi-ports" it. (see above) You do know that "porting" software mean modifying it, don't you? -- Mark Warner MEPIS Linux Registered Linux User #415318 ....lose .inhibitions when replying
From: Mark Warner on 1 Aug 2010 16:27 Mark Warner wrote: > > You said it "semi-ports" it. (see above) You do know that "porting" > software mean modifying it, don't you? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1B7GGGL_enUS219US220&q=define%3Aport&btnG=Search <q> modify (software) for use on a different machine or platform </q> -- Mark Warner MEPIS Linux Registered Linux User #415318 ....lose .inhibitions when replying
From: za kAT on 1 Aug 2010 16:35 On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 20:10:43 +0000 (UTC), Bear Bottoms wrote: > Like I said. You are in denial, and unless the license specifically > states it can be run under Wine as you said some software you have > states, then it cannot be legally and especially morally done so. Provide a single credible link that proves that statement. -- zakAT(a)pooh.the.cat - Sergeant Tech-Com, DN38416. Assigned to protect you. You've been targeted for denigration!
From: Benedolfus on 1 Aug 2010 17:08
Op 01-08-10 22:10, Bear Bottoms schreef: > Like I said. You are in denial, and unless the license specifically > states it can be run under Wine as you said some software you have > states, then it cannot be legally and especially morally done so. You > might do it anyway, thus stealing. If Linux is so great, why do you need > to steal other software? > According to you if the person/group that owns the rights on some software doesn't mention it can not be run under Wine, we still have to assume that that's the case and they just forgot to mention it? Seems to me a case of proven guilty until innocence proved, referring to the use of wine as stealing is thus stupid. |