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
