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List:       suse-linux-e
Subject:    Re: [SLE] MusicMatch Releases Jukebox Software for Linux!!
From:       Greg Thomas <ethant () pacificnet ! net>
Date:       2000-11-30 20:57:55
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On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Damon Register wrote:

> Jerry Kreps wrote:
> > > -**-mmm.... It looks like they went the Corel WPO2000 route and put
> > > their -**-WinXX app on top of WINE.  They also claim that they have
> I am very confused about something here.  Doesn't WINE actually
> require that MS Windows be installed because it uses many pieces of
> Windows in order to function?  Isn't Linux among other things, an
> alternate operating system so users can be free from MS?  If this
> is the case, why would any Linux user want to use an applpication
> that forces him to install the other OS that he/she is trying to
> escape?

MM is probably using just the WINE libs to ease porting, just like WP.

Also, the full WINE does not require a Windows license, it just tries to
provide as complete of a Windows API as possible but it is entirely open
source.  You would obviously need a license for whatever Windows app you
were using.

Greg


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