[Desktop_architects] Applications and pre-installed machines

[Jeremy White]

>>Photoshop ran under
>>Wine, but Adobe added a fairly severe DRM to Photoshop CS and CS2, so
>>modern versions of Photoshop no longer run under Wine.
> 
> 
> Is this a solveable problem or do you expect that DRM and similar technologies 
> will prevent many applications from working with wine in the future?

We currently believe it is a solveable problem, although
a non trivial one (current estimates are about a man year
of effort is required for the various problem points).

It's also a worst case problem for us - it's nasty grinding
debugging of the very worst kind, made even harder because
the software doesn't *want* you to know what it needs
in order to run correctly.  And if you contact the DRM
makers about making their software run properly under Wine,
they get the heebie jeebies.  Which is unfortunate;
our goal is simply to make their software work as they intend.

Cheers,

Jeremy