[Wine] Wine distro with MS WOS look and feel

[Jim Hall]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Jim Hall <volunteer.jim at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:39 AM, James Mckenzie <
> jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> mitcoes <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>> >Sent: Aug 26, 2010 2:53 AM
>> >To: wine-users at winehq.org
>> >Subject: [Wine]  Wine distro with MS WOS look and feel
>> >
>> >i think that if a distribution with MS WOS XP and 7 look and feel based
>> on Gnome and Ubuntu or debian is released a lot of people would migrate.
>> >
>> Take a look at ReactOS.  Realize that this is a nest of available lawsuit
>> material, and that the wizzards in Redmond have a fleet of lawyers and such
>> looking out for their interests.  Look and feel lawsuits are not reliable
>> for presedence but they do give enough for those folks to target anyone that
>> creates a Windows7ese like interface.
>>
>> James McKenzie
>>
>>
>>
>
> Personally, I don't want my Linux to look like Windoze. As for current
> desktops, point & click is point & click. If the desktop has to look and
> feel like Windoze to convince someone to switch to Linux, I don't want them.
>
> Jim
>
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