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campbelc

join:2002-02-19
Battle Creek, MI
reply to fiddelm3742
Re: Nice Product

Actually VNC violates your EULA with Microsoft. But we too use RealVNC. Love the Antispyware beta though.


click_310
Eat my shorts

join:2002-12-06
Savannah, GA

said by campbelc See Profile:

Actually VNC violates your EULA with Microsoft.
How?
NOTE: I have never in my life read the MS EULA. Don't feel like wasting a perfectly good Friday afternoon doing it either.

JofCore

join:2004-09-15
Sebewaing, MI

He's probably talking about this part... (this has been there since Windows 2000, BTW)

Except as otherwise permitted by the
NetMeeting, Remote Assistance, and Remote Desktop
features described below, you may not use the Product
to permit any Device to use, access, display or run other
executable software residing on the Workstation Computer,
nor may you permit any Device to use, access, display,
or run the Product or Product's user interface, unless
the Device has a separate license for the Product.

So, technically, to VNC to your windows box from your linux box, you would need a windows license for your linux box.

I remember someone once mused on what this phone call might go like:

MS: Hello, Microsoft Licensing, may I help you?
U: Yes, I need to purchase a windows license for my linux box.
MS: ok, what version of windows do you currently have?
U: I don't have windows. I need a license for my linux box so I can remotely connect to a windows machine at work.
MS: So what version of windows do you have?
U: I DON'T HAVE WINDOWS. I HAVE LINUX.
MS: Oh, well we don't support linux. Thank you for calling Microsoft!
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