Microsoft Blocking Wine Users From Downloads Site 895
IamTheRealMike writes "In January, Microsoft announced a new anti-piracy initiative called
Genuine Advantage. From this summer onwards all users of Microsoft Downloads will be required to validate using either an ActiveX control or a standalone tool. Yesterday Ivan Leo Puoti, a Wine developer, discovered that the validation tool checks directly for Wine and bails out with a generic error when found. This is significant as it's not only the first time Microsoft has actively discriminated against users running their programs via Wine, but it's also the first time they've broken radio silence on the project."
Lost another one to FF (Score:4, Funny)
Re:bah (Score:4, Funny)
Let this be a lesson to you... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Lost another one to FF (Score:3, Funny)
Mixed signals (Score:5, Funny)
"Ignore all that, turn ActiveX on again, else you won't be able to download from us!"
What the hell?
Re:Let this be a lesson to you... (Score:1, Funny)
I can't! (Score:1, Funny)
I can't. My kids clicked on the "I Accept" button, and there's no way to check on the EULA now.
Bill's Dilemma (Score:2, Funny)
Question fron non-windows guy (Score:1, Funny)
If you're running Wine, and you are prevented from d/ling SP2 or something, well, so what?
On the other hand, if you're running Wine so that you can run your legal copy of Microsoft Office on your linux box, and you can't download updates to Office, then this is rather unfair.
Would someone enighten me as to what exactly Microsoft is preventing? I don't use windows so I'm not really sure.
It's not done... (Score:5, Funny)
... `till WINE won't run.
Good old Microsoft.
Same as it ever was.
Guess I'd better call my lawyer then... (Score:3, Funny)
Too funny (Score:5, Funny)
You should only have the inferior computing, viruses and vulnuerabilities that result from Genuine Windows products. Don't be fooled by immitations.
Wait there's more....
Re:bah (Score:3, Funny)
However, keep in mind too much Wine on a party might turn "it" Microsoft.
I think (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Bad, bad Microsoft.... no cookie for you! (Score:3, Funny)
New vulnerability intoduced! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:bah (Score:2, Funny)
the good news (Score:5, Funny)
We're here to protect you (Score:5, Funny)
The next time you go to Windows Update, whether you run Wine or not...
Re:bah (Score:2, Funny)
It's another prod towards the apathetic that would be content to use Windows 95.
Apathetic? More like masochistic.
Oh the pain I endured trying to use that operating system. It was a brilliant training tool for the public. Years later when showing friends stuff under Linux or NT4, they would worry about me running more than 3 or 4 applications at a time.
"Are you sure you can do that? Isn't it going to crash?"
Flamebait it may be, but that is what they said to me.