Wine and industrial communication like OPC

[Rickard Svensson]

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Hearn <m.hearn at signal.QinetiQ.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:55:47 +0100
To: Rickard Svensson <riq at mail.com>
Subject: Re: Wine and industrial communication like OPC

> > I found the DCom update for Win 98 (Se: http://www.microsoft.com/com/dcom/dcom98/download.asp?SD=GN&LN=SV&gssnb=1)
> > The licens is bad: (Se: http://www.microsoft.com/com/dcom/dcom98/eula.asp)
> > --- --- --- ---
> > 1. GRANT OF LICENSE. This EULA grants you the following rights:
> > 
> >     * Software License. Microsoft grants you the right to make and use as many copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT as you have validly licensed copies of Microsoft® Windows® 98. You may also make copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT for backup and archival purposes.
> > 
> >     * Distribution. You may not redistribute DCOM98.
> > 
> > --- --- --- ---
> 
> Yes, it's not good. I'm not sure about the distribution clause: 
> presumably it's talking about the package itself rather than the 
> software but obviously IANAL.

I don't know that much about licenses, but the second point seem to stop all distribution:
"You may not redistribute DCOM98."

> > But I have to convince my boss...
> > How meny ours do you think it wood take to get DCom to work in Wine?
> > 50 h / 100h / 500h / 1000h ?
> 
> Good question. I'm afraid I have no idea, it's impossible to predict.
> 
> I've CCd Rob as really me and Rob are the only ones who have been 
> hacking on the DCOM code lately. Mike has been doing some work on widl 
> but that wouldn't be necessary to get a wire-compatible DCOM.
> 
> If I had to guess, I'd say we're looking at 500 man hours +

OK, now I have an aproximate time to go on, and talk to my boss about.

> > I'm the one who is mostly for Linux here, as I mentioned XP ersion is on the way, we have used QT to make or application. So it is 
> easy to migrate and there is a definite risk that all will go towards a 
> XP embedded variant :(
> 
> That would be bad, but you win some you lose some ....

Yes, but for me personly the Linux work in this company would probably be redused to a minimum.


/Rickard
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