[Wine] Re: Arguments for Wine on windows/incremental adoption

[Deweirdifier]

> E.U. courts have ruled most, but not all, of the Microsoft EULA unenforcable.


You move wine servers to a EU country where this part of the EULA isn't enforceable?

You can move the servers to afganistan, there are no copyright laws there :)

Weit, isn't 7 basicaly a rehashed vista? Maybe you can do this on vista instaid.

Isn't what i propose very similar to IE4linux?

What about doing what this guy did? Seem legal, it's under users liability.
http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html

you use nlite to strip stuff out, from IE to windows shell, fonts and images, automatically install KDE for windows, QT/GTK, opensource drivers(for the fanatics). And of course wine dlls additional to the native ones, with a custom linker so that you can use them on a case by case basis. This way you can extend XPs life, and gradually update the system with open source code. In order to work, you'll need to maintain at least 20-30% of users, so that software publishers are forced to continue making software for "XP". They will be forced to pass to the successor API, simply because the native isn't maintained any more, the native would be considered depracated. The successor API could be QT or GTK or new stuff, that of course its much easier to integrate in wine. Of course m$ will lawyer up, so protection should be guarantied by some big monsters, like Google, IBM, Red hat, etc.