----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Hearn m.hearn@signal.QinetiQ.com Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:55:47 +0100 To: Rickard Svensson riq@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&gs...) The licens is bad: (Se: http://www.microsoft.com/com/dcom/dcom98/eula.asp)
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