[cw-discuss] Wine sabotage

[Manaen Schlabach]

On 3/1/07, Derek Fountain <derekfountain at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > They do screen for Wine in their Windows Genuine Advantage check;
> > that would prevent you from running Windows update under Wine, for
> > example.
>
> Do you know how they screen for it? Presumably just changing the Wine
> behaviour in whatever check they make would bypass the check?
>
I suspect that Codeweavers try very hard to make sure copy protection
schemes, and any other legitimacy checking just "works" because they
don't want Wine/CXoffice to turn into a Warez tool of some kind.