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to: Joe Barr
from: Mike `/m`
date: 2003-04-22 17:58:12
subject: Re: Catching up with Wine

From: Mike '/m' 


Those types of tactics by Microsoft shows that Linux is becoming a problem
for Microsoft in the Windows desktop space.

So, in reality, this is good news.  :-)

 /m



On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 07:54:23 -0500, "Joe Barr"
 wrote:

>TransGaming's announcement of the availability of WineX 3.0 got a lot of
>pixel dust, but that wasn't the only recent news about WINE. The cold,
>dead hand of the Microsoft monopoly also reached out to touch the project
>when Whil Hentzen, a leading proponent of Visual FoxPro (VFP) development
>on Linux, was contacted by an Microsoft manager and told it was a
>violation of the VFP EULA to run it on Linux.
>
>http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0421.barr.html

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