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Originally posted by SecretMethod70
WINE Is Not an Emulator (I love recursive acronyms  ). IIRC, it takes the API calls and converts them into something Linux can understand...or something like that. Forgive my termonology...I know what I mean, but I'm not sure how to call it as I'm not a programmer.
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Dead on. WINE is an "alternate implementation of the Windows API". Emulators get sued, as reverse-engineering copyrighted works is illegal. Creating an alternate implementation of a published API, though, is totally fair game.