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> From: Orchid XP v8 [mailto:voi### [at] devnull]
> Besides, I was under the distinct impression that it's *illegal* to
> reverse-engineer Windows. And that its implementation is covered by
> several billion patents precisely to prevent anybody ever making
> something compatible with it, for that matter.

WINE Is Not an Emulator.  They don't really reverse engineer anything 
(that is, they don't reimplement the Windows core DLLs or anything), 
rather they allow Windows .exe's to run on Linux, and allow dynamic 
linking of Windows DLLs under Linux.

In other words, it allows native Windows apps to run under Linux as if 
they were under Windows.

It's surprisingly effective (although none of the programs *I* needed when 
I tried it worked, it's still a cool concept).

...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

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