On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:31:22 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> Doctor John wrote:
>> http://www.winehq.org/?announce=1.0-rc1
>> 
>> I think a few tasting sessions are in order.
> 
> Hmm... "This is realise 1.0-rc1 of Wine, a free implementation of
> Windows on Unix." Would that not, by definition, be illegal? 

No.  Because it's not an implementation of *Windows*, it's an 
implementation of Windows APIs using clean-room reverse engineering.  
There's nothing illegal about that.

That's how Compaq built IBM compatible PCs - clean room reverse 
engineering of the BIOS.

> Sometimes
> tastes fishy here...

Not at all.  The project is at least 12 years old....

Jim

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