wine overstepping the mark?

[Aneurin Price]

wino at piments.com wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 01:11:21 +0200, Vitaliy Margolen  
> <wine-devel at kievinfo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Thursday, October 27, 2005, 5:04:05 PM, wino at piments.com wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the explaination but that's just my point. That is windows
>>> mentality, but this is not windows.
>>
>>
>>> If I install gimp it does not try to reconfigure my system and take over
>>> control of any image file types it can handle. That is windows  
>>> mentality.
>>
>> I wander what else can you use to open exe files with? And not just  
>> open, but
>> run?
>>
>> Vitaliy
>>
>>
>>
> crossover, win4lin
> 
> btw, I thought open and run was the same thing. LOL
> 
> 
> 
No, because you may wish to open the file in a disassembler, a hex 
editor, a resource viewer, etc. In these cases, you certainly wouldn't 
want to *run* it. I think that's a part of the point :P.