[Wine]/. : Microsoft Blocking Wine Users From Downloads Site
edoardo comar
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Fri Feb 18 03:00:50 CST 2005
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/05/02/17/1318212.shtml?tid=125&tid=109&tid=106
Microsoft Blocking Wine Users From Downloads Site
... from linux.slashdot.org
IamTheRealMike writes "In January, Microsoft announced a new anti-piracy
initiative called Genuine Advantage. From this summer onwards all users
of Microsoft Downloads will be required to validate using either an
ActiveX control or a standalone tool. Yesterday Ivan Leo Puoti, a Wine
developer, discovered that the validation tool checks directly for Wine
and bails out with a generic error when found. This is significant as
it's not only the first time Microsoft has actively discriminated
against users running their programs via Wine, but it's also the first
time they've broken radio silence on the project."
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