msnbc news alert installer: "Unable to start browser"

[Bill Medland]

"Dan Kegel" <dank at kegel.com> wrote in message
news:3C35371B.9FF04D0F at kegel.com...
> While doing research for my site on the Microsoft
> antitrust trial ( http://www.kegel.com/remedy/ ), I
> came across a nasty little EULA for a product called
> MSNBC News Alert.  The EULA is at
> http://www.msnbc.com/tools/newsalert/naeula.asp
> and says
>
> > MSNBC Interactive grants you the right to install and use
> > copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT on your computers running validly
> > licensed copies of the operating system for which the SOFTWARE
> > PRODUCT was designed

So who specifies for what operating systems the software was designed?

> > [e.g., Microsoft Windows(r) 95; Microsoft
> > Windows NT(r), Microsoft Windows 3.x, Macintosh, etc.].
>
> It'd be nice to know how close Wine is to being able to
> (a) install and (b) run this on a fake windows installation,
> as this may have some bearing on whether Microsoft is
> damaging anybody with this exclusionary EULA.
> (Besides, how could I resist?  That EULA practically begs to be
disobeyed!)

It seems to me that one cannot even tell whether one is or is not disobeying
it.

Bill