On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 12:13:35PM -0300, Avi Alkalay wrote: > Well, it is better to let some Red Hatter to respond that, but I can > tell that IBM will never propose some migration solution based on Wine > because it is an open implementation of a proprietary thing. In other > words, it is proprietary, which means "legal issues". Windows APIs are > a propriety of Microsoft. API's are not copyrightable as I understand it. Wine isn't exactly an enterprise supportable product unless you have a team of windows and wine wizards (like the crossover office guys), and even they can only hit a fixed set of programs > Other minor Wine issues are: > - Businesses look at it as an ad-hoc solution > - You can't be sure if all your apps will run there Qemu might also be a more useful path to windoze license holders for business apps anyway
