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From: | John Ogness |
Subject: | Re: [Dazuko-devel] Dazuko XP |
Date: | Tue, 12 Apr 2005 08:35:58 +0200 |
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John Richard Moser wrote:
Is Dazuko going to hit windows XP soon?
Hi,I know that there are some commercial organizations working on getting Dazuko ported to WindowsXP. But I have no idea when that will be finished (or if it will be available at no cost). With WindowsXP Dazuko would be implemented as a mini-filter. This involves using Microsoft-Proprietary interfaces. To use these interfaces requires a license and signing a non-disclosure-agreement. This means that Dazuko for WindowsXP could never be open source.
HOWEVER, many companies have purchased such a license and signed the required documents. This means that one of these companies could port Dazuko and release it as a binary DLL at no cost. This would be the ideal solution (considering the options). We will have to see what happens. Right now there are no proposed release dates for a WindowsXP version.
On a side note, a friend of mine is working on a 16-bit MS-DOS port of Dazuko. :)
John Ogness -- Dazuko Maintainer
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