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Microsoft XP License Prohibits VNC

Posted by timothy on from the there's-an-interesting-clause dept.

jhml writes: "Looks like the monopoly muscles are flexing. According to this article in Infoworld, the XP license prohibits products other than from Microsoft's from being used to remotely control an XP workstation. So ... guess they were having a little trouble with VNC being widely used?"

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  1. As a wise man once said by Clay+Mitchell · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Microsoft can KISS MY GRITS

    I'm going to use VNC anyway I want. Is there any legally binding stuff that says you can't use it?

    I've always thought it's funny you don't get to accept or decline the EULA until AFTER you plunk down your money for it...

  2. Re:Hi by danielrose · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    PS2 is better! Muwah!

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  3. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  4. Cable modem by LiENUS · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Cox (and i believe most cable companies) recently sent out a package which you were supposed to install to go from @home to cox basicly all it did was launch vnc server (completely hidden ie no icon in the tray) and tell your computer to use dhcp. does this mean Cox is now in violation of the DMCA?

  5. Re:VNC vs. Remote Desktop by Peyna · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    When properly used airbags indeed save lives. You have to sit properly in the seat, and use the seatbelt properly. An airbag is more likely to bruise you that kill you. This will give you some statistics about airbags on both sides (safety and injury/death). From that, and many other sources, it is quite obvious that airbags help more than hurt. Same thing with seatbelts. Sure, there are instances when they are likely to cause more injury or death; however, they are proven to save more lives than they take. Many, many, more. As a survivor of 4 accidents myself, I often wonder where I would be without seatbelts and/or airbags. (I should note, I was a passenger in all of the accidents, and no one was seriously injured in any of them.)

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  6. Dad, is that you? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Say hi to mom for me.

  7. The big problem with VNC... by badzilla · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If your servers (W2K in my case) do not physically have monitors connected then VNC client will fail to start a session. Plug the monitor back in, everything's fine again.

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  8. Re:ssh ? by borgboy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Isn't Windows a piece of shit on servers?


    No.

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  9. Re:ssh ? by ethereal · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Uh, you need like 300 servers if you use Windows?

    Spoken like someone who's never seen sendmail machines swapped out for Exchange servers :)

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