It is my understanding that the MainSoft product is a library that
you link your WIN32 source to which then produces a native *NIX
binary.

You license the lib from Mainsoft that has a license from Microsoft.

It work the same as source lib from the WINE project.

Anyone trying to port Win32 code to Linux should really look at
WINE now. It works pretty good.

> I had done some investigating of Mainsoft.  They have Windows binaries
> that can be installed under Unix and Linux that will enable Windows
> applications to run under Unix and Linux.  I understand that this was
> done to make IE run under Unix, AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris.  I do not
> know if they made IE work for Linux.  I think we would have heard
> about it.
>
> HERE IS THE RUB:   Licenses for M$ Windows are required to make
> it work.
>
> >From: Lucas Vogel <lvogel@exponent.com>
> >To: plug1 <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> >Subject: write it in Windows, deploy it to *nix?
> >Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 08:32:22 -0700
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> >Anybody ever heard of this company, or this product? Despite the heavy
price
> >tag, it looks pretty cool...
> >
> >http://www.mainsoft.com/products/mainwin.html
> >
> >
> >
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