My original question generated this new thread, which in turn became very technical. But, I think that Paul's original posting was more of a philosophical or maybe even moral nature.
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If questions relating to a commercial non open source product that uses wine heavily are not welcome on this list, I apologize and I will never ask these kinds of questions again.
Dan - it was not my plan to silence such questions at all. I just wanted to point out the, yes, moral issue that I saw. I think you should feel free to continue to ask them. nobody has else has raised anything related my concerns, so I think you are on safe ground in terms of etiquette.
--p