Re: Wine and industrial communication like OPC

[Rickard Svensson]

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Hearn <m.hearn(a)signal.QinetiQ.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:55:47 +0100
To: Rickard Svensson <riq(a)mail.com>
Subject: Re: Wine and industrial communication like OPC
> > I found the DCom update for Win 98 (Se: http://www.microsoft.com/com/dcom/dcom98/download.asp?SD=GN&LN=SV&gssnb=1)
> > The licens is bad: (Se: http://www.microsoft.com/com/dcom/dcom98/eula.asp)
> > --- --- --- ---
> > 1. GRANT OF LICENSE. This EULA grants you the following rights:
> >
> > * Software License. Microsoft grants you the right to make and use as many copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT as you have validly licensed copies of Microsoft® Windows® 98. You may also make copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT for backup and archival purposes.
> >
> > * Distribution. You may not redistribute DCOM98.
> >
> > --- --- --- ---
>
> Yes, it's not good. I'm not sure about the distribution clause: 
> presumably it's talking about the package itself rather than the 
> software but obviously IANAL.

I don't know that much about licenses, but the second point seem to stop all distribution:
"You may not redistribute DCOM98."
> > But I have to convince my boss...
> > How meny ours do you think it wood take to get DCom to work in Wine?
> > 50 h / 100h / 500h / 1000h ?
>
> Good question. I'm afraid I have no idea, it's impossible to predict.
>
> I've CCd Rob as really me and Rob are the only ones who have been 
> hacking on the DCOM code lately. Mike has been doing some work on widl 
> but that wouldn't be necessary to get a wire-compatible DCOM.
>
> If I had to guess, I'd say we're looking at 500 man hours +

OK, now I have an aproximate time to go on, and talk to my boss about.
> > I'm the one who is mostly for Linux here, as I mentioned XP ersion is on the way, we have used QT to make or application. So it is 
> > easy to migrate and there is a definite risk that all will go towards a 
> > XP embedded variant :(
>
> That would be bad, but you win some you lose some ....

Yes, but for me personly the Linux work in this company would probably be redused to a minimum.


/Rickard
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Wine and industrial communication like OPC

[Lars Segerlund]

I just had a thought, wouldn't perhaps DCOM support for wine with a minimum implementation do ? That way not everything had to be done at once ?

 This could reduce time to deployment, and perhaps make it possible not to drop Linux in favour of XP ..

 / regards, Lars Segerlund.


On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 03:59:26 -0500
"Rickard Svensson" <riq(a)mail.com> wrote:

 ... snip ...
> > That would be bad, but you win some you lose some ....
>
> Yes, but for me personly the Linux work in this company would probably be redused to a minimum.
>
> /Rickard
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