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<DIV><SPAN class=575103916-17022004><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=502193014-18022004>Dear WINE Developers,</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=575103916-17022004><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>Briefly with
Bricscad IntelliCAD we have an almost-clone of AutoCAD and we are very
successfull in selling it to large corporations under a Coporate License
Agreement. Several of our Corporate clients want to start with implementing
LINUX in their organization. For their engineering departments they need an
AutoCAD alternative that is 100% compatible with it and that can be learned by
an AutoCAD user in less then 3 hours. <SPAN
class=502193014-18022004>BricsCad has invested a lot in making our version of
IntelliCAD a stable, relaible and performant CAD software, that is so close to
AutoCAD. </SPAN>We have it now ready in a beta version on LINUX.<SPAN
class=502193014-18022004> The products name will be BricsCad for Linux and will
use WINE. BricsCad for Linux vs AutoCAD is comparable to what Open Office is vs
MS Office. We will support three versions: Red Hat, Suse and Java Desktop. Press
release is ready.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=575103916-17022004><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=502193014-18022004>OUR PROBLEM:</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=575103916-17022004><FONT face=Arial size=2>We are wondering if
we can distribute the Microsoft DLL's with the application without infringing
the copyright of Microsoft. The alternative is rewrite some of them, but that
would require a couple of months of development and postponing the release of
the software.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=502193014-18022004><FONT face=Arial size=2>I guess we are not
the only ones with this problem?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=502193014-18022004><FONT face=Arial size=2>Looking forward to
your point of view</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=502193014-18022004><FONT face=Arial size=2>Erik De
Keyser</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=502193014-18022004><FONT face=Arial size=2>CEO
BricsCad</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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