[cw-discuss] Wine sabotage

[Jeremy White]

Manaen Schlabach wrote:
> 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.

Exactly.  Our goal is to enable Windows software to run as
it's author intended.  We try to pass no judgement on what the software
is doing, at least publicly :-/.

Cheers,

Jeremy