On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 02:02:27AM +0000, Michael Brown wrote:
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Phil Driscoll wrote:
Just spotted this on slashdot. It appears that the windows XP licence effectively forbins you from using VNC. This may be an issue which directly affects some of you! http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/03/18/020318oplivingston.xml
From the linked article:
Microsoft's XP license agreement says, "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..."
Damn, looks as though it's in violation of the licence agreement to be vulnerable to viruses!
Also rules out Java applets and Javascript dished up from a webserver doesn't it. Why don't they just come out with it: `You don't own the software, we do & we can do whatever we like with it but you can't do anything without violating this licence'. Their baroque licences will eventually end up in court & be shown to be a lot of worthless, unenforceable sh*t. At the last count MS employed 2000 lawyers. Innovation? Not in software. Crooked scams? Maybe. -- Frank *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Boroughbridge. Tel: 01423 323019 --------- PGP keyID: 0xC0B341A3 *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/ When you're bored with yourself, marry, and be bored with someone else. -- David Pryce-Jones