From: Jerry Kreps <jerrykreps@jlkreps.net> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 18:42:00 -0600 Message-Id: <00113018420004.08873@JLKreps> Subject: Re: [SLE] MusicMatch Releases Jukebox Software for Linux!! On Thursday 30 November 2000 14:11, Damon Register wrote:
Jerry Kreps wrote:
-**-mmm.... It looks like they went the Corel WPO2000 route and put their -**-WinXX app on top of WINE. They also claim that they have
I am very confused about something here. Doesn't WINE actually require that MS Windows be installed because it uses many pieces of Windows in order to function? Isn't Linux among other things, an alternate operating system so users can be free from MS? If this is the case, why would any Linux user want to use an applpication that forces him to install the other OS that he/she is trying to escape?
Damon Register
<p>WINE supplies clones of Win32 API functions, and dlls in a pseudo WIin Platform. Some functions pass through to Win itself, but if apps setting on WINE never call those functions Win is never needed. Licenses to run WinXX software is another matter. If you already have an app license and it runs on top of WINE then why not run it? It's not illegal. JLK <p> -- Scientific theories, according to Sir Karl Popper, can be "falsified," or proven wrong, by experiment. Unscientific theories -Marxist dialectical history and Freudian psychology were Popper's favorites- are formed in such a way that they cannot be falsified by data.