VMWare / Wine

Dave Grundgeiger dave.grundgeiger at codenouveau.com
Sat Feb 24 11:30:55 UTC 2007


Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:
> In short, if a piece of software lists "Microsoft Windows xxxx" as a
> requirement, like almost every piece of Windows software does, it
> implies a *legally owned* copy of that software. It doesn't even have
> to be installed, IOW Wine is "legal" (the reason the topic came up), but
> to run almost any Windows software legally requires ownership of a
> Microsoft Windows license more current than Windows 95.

So, if a piece of software says "512MB minimum RAM" as a requirement and I 
run it in 256MB, then I'm running it illegally?

Dave 





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