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Re: Wine, the implicit Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage


From: Christoph Frick <frick () sc-networks com>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 11:38:58 +0200

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 11:30:56AM +0200, Christian Khark Lauf wrote:

... running on the system, it will notify users that they are running
non-genuine Windows, and will not allow genuine Windows downloads for
that system. Users of WINE should consult the WINE community for WINE
updates. ...

the tool contains a check for a certain registry key. this key changed
recently due to changes in the way one configures WINE (~/.wine/config
-> completely registry driven). now the tool no longer "sees" the WINE-key
and works happily ever after.

-- 
cu

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