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ZDNet UK: Wine Maker Relaxed Over Microsoft’s ‘Blockade’

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 23, 2005

“A company that sells products based on Wine, an open source
application that allows users to run Windows applications under
Linux, said it isn’t worried that Microsoft’s anti-piracy
application appears to be blocking the emulation software.

“Jeremy White, chief executive at CodeWeavers, which sells
Wine-based products, said this week that he wasn’t worried about
the issue because Microsoft would face legal action if it attempted
to tie Office and Windows too tightly together…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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