WineX 3.2

[Gavriel State]

Ivan Leo Murray-Smith wrote:
> My free RPMs can't hurt Transgaming. For a start, on my winex page, I have a
> complete list of the features that only the commercial version has, and an
> invitation to subscribe to Transgaming if you want those extra features. As the
> freeware version doesn't include installshield, lots of games won't even install
> with the freeware version, for a start max payne. Also, even if a game does
> work, it won't run full screen,  so if a users has lots of games that work with
> the free version, but wants them to run full screen, he'll probably go to the
> transgaming store. For all these reasons, I don't think my free RPMs are a
> financial threat to Transgaming in any way. Transgaming has taken a lot from Wine
> (Well it wouldn't have much to sell without wine), and I don't think there is
> anything wrong if someone takes something back. I think Transgaming should worry
> about those web sites that distribute the full commercial version of WineX, you
> just have to look for winex 3.2 download free on google , I reported this to
> Transgaming many months ago, and they still haven't taken any action.

Ivan,

Nothing stops users of your packages from running a game in full screen mode -
that's controlled by the 'Desktop' setting in the wine config file.

As for bittorrent, yes, both TransGaming's and CodeWeavers' products are available
through bittorrent.  As far as I understand things though, there's very little
that can be done about that, since bittorrent is a peer-to-peer system where no
one user has all parts of a given file, and everything is encrypted anyways.

Where we've been able to identify other places where our subscriber-only packages
(which contain pieces that we can't give others a license to redistribute) have
been made available for download, we've certainly tried to put a stop to it.

Regardless, all I'm saying here is 'Please, don't do that'.  It's up to you
if you want to follow that or not.

Take care,
  -Gav


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Gavriel State
Co-CEO & CTO
TransGaming Technologies Inc.
gav at transgaming.com
http://www.transgaming.com

Let the games begin!