[ros-general] Browsers

[Tom Lee Mullins]

Vizzini wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 03:44, Colin Burn wrote:
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>>What would happen if you installed IE on ReactOS?
>>
>>Does the licence allow this?
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>
>At the moment, it depends.  CodeWeavers installs MS Office (legal,
>according to the Office EULA), which itself installs IE, without ever
>asking for the IE license agreement.  Therefore, so they say, this is
>just fine.
>
>I think (but haven't checked lately) that the current IE license
>requires the user to own a Windows license, which is still almost always
>the case, but hopefully not forever.  It does this by claiming that IE
>is an operating system component.
>
>I personally don't believe that MS can enforce that requirement, but we
>have a *lot* of thinking and planning to do before I'd be comfortable
>actually recommending that someone ignore a license agreement. 
>Certainly that is *not* the current position of this project.
>
> -Vizzini
>
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One could also use Open Office ( http://www.openoffice.org ) instead of 
MSOffice.
It too is open sourced like Mozilla.

TomLeeM

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