> What does AFAIK stand for? As Far As I Know.
On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 01:47:15 -0500, Rickard Svensson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Now I also got some questions from your answers: > > > > > > * Did I understand correctly. Wine doesn't have a built in support for DCom, to > > > be abel to use Dcom I have to add the DCom support from Windows 98 to the Linux > > > system? > > > And the problem with that is the MS License, it stops me from distribute those > > > XXX.dll with a Linux product (hardware and software in this case.) > > > > It doesn't stop you, basically the license says "you must have a Windows > > license to use this code". Because it's technically a part of Windows, see? > > Yyyy! > I hate license issues! > I can see that for many people this wouldn't be an issue, because they probably have > some old Win 98 CD/Licens somewhere (if they even care). > But for a company that would like to send it as part of an embedded computer with > Linux I can se a lot of problems. > > > > However a Windows license is quite cheap relative to $3000-$4000 for the > > APIs so maybe this isn't a problem. > > But that was per development project, not per system we want to use OPC in. > > > You could even buy copies of Windows 98 off ebay or something for > > ultra-cheap living. The license can be for any version of Windows AFAIK. > > That could perhaps be an idea.... > What does AFAIK stand for? > > > > The difficulty may be that nobody has tested network DCOM servers on > > Wine as far as I know, even using Microsofts implementation. So you'd be > > doing some pioneering work :) > > That is good ;-) > In the industry we are a lot of people who really question the total madness of > letting the OPC standard be that depended on Windows, when it is supposed to be a > "free" organization. > > My hope if I can get this to work is to publish a site on the net so all who want to > use Linux in the industrial computing can do that quite easy... > But then we have the license issues to :-( > > > > - Wines own, builtin code. This is incomplete and cannot do what you want. > > > > - Microsofts DCOM implementation > > > > Wine *does* have support for MSRPC, and I think it's wire compatible > > with Windows these days and capable of making simple RPCs. However the > > RPC runtime (rpcrt4.dll) is just the first layer of DCOM, all the rest > > don't work right yet. > > Ok, now I understand, and also why I got confused before. > > And there is a lot of work needed to make DCom to work in Wine? > Is someone working on it or is it something that not is that important in other > cases? > > Thanks a lot Mike for you answer! > > > > /Rickard > -- > ___________________________________________________________ > Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com > http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm > > -- James Hawkins
