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  • Microsoft Blocking Wine Users From Downloads Site (More poor business parctices by gates)

    02/17/2005 7:32:53 AM PST · by N3WBI3 · 185 replies · 2,709+ views
    wine-devel Mailing list ^ | 2005-02-17 | Ivan Leo
    As some of you may know, Microsoft is planning to totally restrict access to the Microsoft download center to all non-genuine windows users. So you would expect some check for pirated copies of windows to be involved. If you visit the download center with IE you get an activex control, but if you try with Firefox, you'll have to download a little program, that returns a code you have to copy into the download page, to get access to the download you selected. By quickly looking at the program, I noticed it looks for a registry key, this key is......