[Cialug] Free Codeweavers

[David Champion]

Zachary Kotlarek wrote:
>
> On Oct 28, 2008, at 6:15 PM, Todd Walton wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:24 AM, David Bierce <david at bierce.org> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> I did it at about 7AM today and got it instantly...and the download 
>>>> went as
>>>> fast as my 1.2Mbps pipe would take it.
>>>
>>> I got on at 6:30 or so this morning.  I got a serial, and I downloaded
>>> the shell script installer.  But it says I can't use it until I
>>> register on the site.  Is that not correct?
>>
>> Good lord!  That is obscene!  This shell script *does* contain binary.
>> Aren't there decency laws against that?
>
>
>
> It's nice to know that some companies understand me -- as a linux user 
> I'd much rather just enter my root password and let a downloaded shell 
> script do whatever it wants. It's too much work to understand what 
> it's trying to do and grant it appropriate permissions.
>
> -- 
>
> I know other commercial packages do this, for a variety of moderately 
> valid reasons, but seriously -- I'm afraid package managers will do 
> things I don't like. Binaries that are automatically run out of 
> script-embedded tarballs and won't even display the EULA without root 
> access are right out, at least until I've reverse engineered them and 
> can run the installation in a more controlled fashion.
>
>     Zach

You are free to download the Wine source and build your own. Nobody's 
forcing you to use Codeweaver's version.

-dc