Re: [ros-general] Browsers

[Tom Lee Mullins]

Vizzini wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 03:44, Colin Burn wrote:
> > What would happen if you installed IE on ReactOS?
> >
> > Does the licence allow this?
>
> 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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