Slashdot posted about a fellow who used WINE to pass the WGA test and downloaded DX9. Since then Microsoft seems to have fixed the error halfway, as my WINE succeeds and the page says validated, but it then asks to validate again. Could be firefox not dealing with the IE-centric crap that is microsoft.com though.
A lot of people raised the question: wtf is GenuineCheck.exe actually *doing* if a completely different implementation of the Windows API can pass, even though they expect real versions of Windows which are pirated to be disallowed.
EDIT: Btw, I'm back at MES baby! Heard Refalm's in charge now, great news!