[cw-discuss] Wine sabotage

[Jeremy White]

Hi Dan,

I'm not aware of any attempt to deliberately sabotage the Wine Project
by Microsoft.

Microsoft is certainly very aware of Wine, and not happy about it.

They do screen for Wine in their Windows Genuine Advantage check;
that would prevent you from running Windows update under Wine, for
example.  It may also make it awkward to get service packs for certain
Microsoft programs.  In practice, we haven't seen much real world
fallout from WGA - it's limited to things like OS updates.  So again, I don't see
evidence of deliberate sabotage along the lines you suggest.

Of course, some might argue that the Windows API is, by definition,
a form of sabotage <grin>.

Cheers,

Jeremy

Daniel Pfenniger wrote:
> Is it only a rumor or can it be documented that some Windows programs start
> by checking if Wine is present, in which case they stop or do other
> unpleasant actions?
> 
> If true and documented such things should be made widely known.  Users
> should
> know which software is sabotaging Wine.  If Microsoft could be shown to
> contribute to Wine sabotaging, this would constitute yet another example
> of monopolistic practices.
> 
> If true this would also explain why Wine seem unable to reach version 1.0.
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
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