Re: [chat] The latest Microsoft attack

[Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 03:15:08PM +1000, invisible ink (jdub@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> begin  Andre Pang  quotation:
> 
> > hmm.  i'm running Excel under win4lin under Linux at the moment.  i
> > haven't read the article at all, but i wonder whether Microsoft would
> > constitute this as illegal under their licensing.
> > 
> > the situation is more scary for WINE, actually ...
> 
> Read the article... It's a license for one of their SDKs, nothing more (so far).

You say it yourself: so far ;-)

remember the old story about "the foot in the door...."
<grin>



jhs



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