In article <487673a8$1@news.povray.org>, nos### [at] nospamcom says...
> 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
> 
Mind you, MS may have used the same lame logic about this project as 
they have in the past with proprietary protocols, presuming that if the 
API is complex, buggy, needlessly bloated and overloaded, no one could 
ever copy it. They where almost right. It took 12 years, instead of a 
week, like the last protocol they came up with. ;) lol

-- 
void main () {

    if version = "Vista" {
      call slow_by_half();
      call DRM_everything();
    }
    call functional_code();
  }
  else
    call crash_windows();
}

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