[Wine] Re: Difference Between WINE and an Emulator

[James Hawkins]

On 12/8/06, Alan McKinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
> On Friday 08 December 2006 13:48, Jens Gulden wrote:
> > WINE is an operating-system running in user-space. It smashes the
> > usual dichotomy "a piece of software is either an operating system or
> > an application". WINE is _both_ an OS _and_ an application. At first
> > sight a joke for computer-scientists, but probably the most ingenious
> > idea in the history of software-development yet...
>
> Not only that but it's also a truly astounding piece of
> reverse-engineering.
>

Wine was not developed using reverse engineering...that would be illegal.

-- 
James Hawkins