[H-GEN] Anyone running quicken/wine/debian/linux? :)

[Nick Kwiatkowski]

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On 11 Sep 2003 Sarah Walters wrote:
> On 11 Sep 2003 Sandra Milne <fakungabubu at internode.on.net> wrote:
> > >If I have to shell out the money for cxoffice I will, but with all the

> > >good reports about quicken I really expected to be able to at least
look
> > >at some of the data in my files. Is there some major problem that only

> > >affects my setup? :)
> >
> > You could try it with a CVS of Transgaming's WineX. I've heard good
> > reports about this, and apparently the cvs is free. WineX is
> > subscription based payment for the full version. I've been pondering
> > trying a cvs of theirs for a while now I just never seem to get the
time.
> >
> > Sandra.
>
> WineX is targeting games, where cxoffice is targeting office apps. WineX
> is available for free, since it's using the wine code it's mostly GPLed
> I believe. What you pay for is the license for the copy protection
> software, which costs Transgaming money. I looked into this when I was
> trying to get diablo II to run under linux and the copy protection was
> tripping me up. Still, might be worth a try.
>

Unfortunately, WineX is not based upon the wine code base. WineX is based
on the "rewind" stream, which is an off shoot, and people like transgaming
can't under the GPL license charge money for additions to GPL code [1].

[1] I could poke fun here about SCO, but I can't ......


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