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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. Netscape by Deanasc · · Score: 5, Troll

    Why didn't they just ban Netscape Navigator in the lisence agreement. Then they wouldn't have had to write IE. What other competing software don't they want people to use? Put that into the lisence too.

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