FESco meeting summary for 20090507

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue May 12 17:49:07 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 17:44 +0200, Matej Cepl wrote:
> On 2009-05-11, 17:18 GMT, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > but wine is still valid.
> 
> Except ... if you really want Windows these days, virtualization 
> is probably more viable option (yes, I have Windows 7/build 7100 
> in kvm running on x86_64 host).

Legally speaking, you need a valid Windows license to use
virtualization. I have no such license for this PC, and I'm not about to
go out and pay Microsoft a couple hundred dollars to buy one. But I can
use wine to run a few Windows apps / games perfectly legally without it.
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