press -- eweek, Microsoft Seeks to Bottle Up Open Source Wine

[Tom]

Mike Hearn wrote:

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>It appears that Photo Story is *only* available if you validate, it's
>not optional in this case.
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>If you click "Download Photo Story 3" here you are told to validate:
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>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx
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>While this app is given away for free, presumably it's still illegal
>product tying as Photo Story *could* run on Wine, but due to this block
>Wine users are being prevented from downloading it.
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You can get it from : 
http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/Photo-Story-3-for-Windows/3000-2204_2-10339155.html
and other servers out there as well.... This is just another M$ stunt, 
every piece of there software can be found on
third party servers. I've not looked for office updates but im sure 
someone is hosting them besides Microsoft.

In our FAQ we need to point out Wine can run applications that are built 
for a number of windows
versions. And the user should start with win98 and try different 
settings if they run into win version errors.

We should also point that due to WGA we suggest using google to search 
for third party
hosting of  files there looking for.......... and just  boycott these 
sons of bitches!.

Anything else that may be of  relevance?

Tom

>thanks -mike
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