Re: Wine 1.0 vs VMWare

["Kristian Erik Hermansen" <user=152@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Scott R. Ehrlich <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> I have had some programs successfully work under Wine.   There are times 
> when registry access or other things outright get in the way. 
> 
> It is largely hit and miss. 

Anything with copy protection or other anti-piracy mechanisms 
generally don't work unless someone has taken the time (like winedev 
or cedega, etc) to work around the issues.  You can always patch your 
runtime executables and DLLs to bypass such schemes though and make 
the applicaion run under wine.  In fact, I would presume that any 
unnecessary calls in the Visio application could be NOOPd out (or 
subverted in other ways) to make it run correctly.  A binary is just a 
binary.  It has instructions and you tell it what to do unless it is 
cryptographically secure and has a nasty unpacking routine :-) 
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