Lindows Was: Re: Installshield 6 (inter-proc) patches

[J.Brown (Ender/Amigo)]

They said they would honour any licences given - of course, the BSD
license doesn't mean they'll be releasing the source. But they seem like
decent people, so we can only hope! :)

I believe a few of their developers are on the list, of course. Any word
guys?

 - Ender

> Well, it might be a bit offtopic, but circulating rumors  are that the
> Lindows guys (who will release their Lindows probably next month or so) will
> have a special wine version, hacked by chinese developers (and I mean tons of
> hacks all the way) to make Office 2K work with wine perfectly as well as some
> other apps. Again - this is a rumor (although I heard it 3 times from
> different people)..
>
> Do you think that Lindows will be thrilled to give their wine modifications
> back to the wine developers? I seriously doubt that, but I'll be more then
> happy to see that I'm wrong here...
>
> BTW: their selling model is quite interesting - you buy licenses per person,
> not per machines...
>
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> Hetz
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