[Wine] Legal Issues

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Sat Dec 19 19:32:08 CST 2009


oiaohm wrote:
> Depends on the application in wine.  Some are just sourced clones.
>
> Its not like MS is the only one to make a notepad application.
>
> Some of the applications are not 100 percent complete either.  Like iexplore in wine it don't even have toolbar.   Basically its only providing what applications have required.
>
> So equivalents is not exactly the right word.   Enough so applications work.
>
>   
Wordpad is a clean room clone of the Windows Wordpad application.  Yes,
there are functions that are missing, but it provides enough
functionality to do testing with.  However, some of the shortcomings are
becoming obvious through richedit function testing.

James McKenzie




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