full-disclosure - Wine, the implicit Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage

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Date: Fri Aug 12 11:12:58 2005
From: frick at sc-networks.com (Christoph Frick)
Subject: Wine,
	the implicit Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 11:30:56AM +0200, Christian Khark Lauf wrote:

> ... running on the system, it will notify users that they are running
> non-genuine Windows, and will not allow genuine Windows downloads for
> that system. Users of WINE should consult the WINE community for WINE
> updates. ...

the tool contains a check for a certain registry key. this key changed
recently due to changes in the way one configures WINE (~/.wine/config
-> completely registry driven). now the tool no longer "sees" the WINE-key
and works happily ever after.

-- 
cu
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