[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09-09-2003 09:01:54 AM: > On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 00:44, Peter Hardy wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 22:53, Sayth wrote: > > > Is mandrake 9 and win4lin a good option, the only thing I need windows > > > for is my girlfriends MSn messenger, Shogun Total war and MS Excel. > > Depending on what you use MSN for, you might find one of the many Linux > > clients suitable. My personal favourite is gaim > > (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/). Otherwise Win4Lin should run it just > > fine. > > There may well be problems using MSN messenger on linux come October > 15th. > --snip-- > "However, upgrading to this does not guarantee us anything. Whereas > previously, Microsoft has let third party clients connect, they now > require a license for doing so. They still encourage clients to connect > to their network, so with any luck, we can work something out. If not, > people may find a way to connect anyway, but the legalities of this are > pretty obvious. Key words: "Intellectual Property" and "DMCA."" > I'm not a solicitor or anything, but isn't it a basic right to be able to reverse engineer a product as long as you do not infringe patents and such - with the idea to increase competition and reduce monopoly markets?
Cheers, Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
