[OT] is wine completely legal (and will it stay so) ?

[Joris Huizer]

--- Shachar Shemesh <wine-users at shemesh.biz> wrote:
> Julian Hall wrote:
> 
> >Particularly the one that says:
> >
> >Unwanted software that expands to fill your hard
> disk and crashes the
> >entire system at regular intervals... Mind you on
> that definition so is
> >Windows... and no I'm not arguing THAT point ;)
> >
> >Julian
> >
> >
> >On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 19:55, Alan Bort wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>DO NOT INSTALL INTERNET EXPLORER!!!!
> >>
> >>if you start IE it will mess up all your 'drives'
> It kills your
> >>computer... M$IE IS a virus by many
> definitions....
> >>    
> >>
> Nah! Viruses are small and efficient, and are
> attempting to become as 
> indistinguishable as possible. Idealy - you don't
> know there is a virus 
> on your machine.
> 
> I guess that even as a virus, Windows doesn't do
> very well.
> 
> -- 
> Shachar Shemesh
> Open Source integration consultant
> Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/
> 
> 
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As I think about it, another property only evil virus
writers would think of is the fast fragmentation on
the disc...

A year ago or something, I heard soneone talking about
a site where people were listing the things windows
has in common with viruses ;-) If somebody knows the
URL...

Anyway, sorry for starting off topic messaging on an
off topic message :-)

Joris

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