VMWare / Wine

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Fri Feb 23 02:31:02 UTC 2007


Derek Broughton wrote:
> Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:
> 
>> I'll tell you what I thing are the main differences between Wine (and
>> its forks : Cedega and CrossOverOffice) and VMware :
>>
>> Wine :
>> - no need for windows license
> 
> Legally, or practically?  Many things you might run under Wine are _legally_
> required to have a Windows license.

That's simply not true.  Components of Windows need a Windows license,
but there's a whole lot of Windows software that isn't even put out by
Microsoft.

Matthew Flaschen

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