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[Paul Davis]

>My original question generated this new thread, which in turn became 
>very technical.  But, I think that Paul's original posting was more of 
>a philosophical or maybe even moral nature.

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>If questions relating to a commercial non open source product that uses 
>wine heavily are not welcome on this list, I apologize and I will never 
>ask these kinds of questions again.

Dan - it was not my plan to silence such questions at all. I just
wanted to point out the, yes, moral issue that I saw. I think you
should feel free to continue to ask them. nobody has else has raised
anything related my concerns, so I think you are on safe ground in
terms of etiquette. 

--p