While doing research for my site on the Microsoft antitrust trial ( http://www.kegel.com/remedy/ ), I came across a nasty little EULA for a product called MSNBC News Alert. The EULA is at http://www.msnbc.com/tools/newsalert/naeula.asp and says
MSNBC Interactive grants you the right to install and use copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT on your computers running validly licensed copies of the operating system for which the SOFTWARE PRODUCT was designed [e.g., Microsoft Windows(r) 95; Microsoft Windows NT(r), Microsoft Windows 3.x, Macintosh, etc.].
It'd be nice to know how close Wine is to being able to (a) install and (b) run this on a fake windows installation, as this may have some bearing on whether Microsoft is damaging anybody with this exclusionary EULA. (Besides, how could I resist? That EULA practically begs to be disobeyed!)
So I downloaded it from http://www.msnbc.com/tools/newstools/d/news_alert.asp and ran it, but it failed with the dialog box "News Alert and Windows were unable to start your default browser to access the following URL..."
Can anyone have a look at what's wrong (presumably Wine doesn't implement browser control, or I don't have a browser registered?)
I'm running Wine release 20010731 (my, that's old!) The output of wine -debugmsg +all is at http://www.kegel.com/wine/newsalert/log.bz2 and is 328KB compressed (200 MB expanded!) I can't see anything obvious, but then I'm out of practice. (You probably just want to download the executable and try it yourself.)
Thanks, Dan Kegel