Actually, to say that Citrix and Microsoft are rivals in this market is a bit of an overstatement. The story is, Citrix developed (or expanded) NT with the capabilities to handle multiple users, and Microsoft has licenced this technology for NT Terminal server edition. In addition, I believe Microsoft has a significant ownership of Citrix. Anyway, the biggest problem with any of these "remote windows NT" - systems is that Microsoft seem to think they can charge for anyone connecting to their servers. (Remember when microsoft wanted to sell web-servers with requirements to buy licences for everyone connecting to them?) This is exactly what they are doing with any thin-client technology based on Windows NT.
Actually, I think this could fairly be attributed to parody, and might therefore be legal. At least it is more fun than www.microsoft-sux.com websites, which usually recieve this exemption, contrast also the various George Bush jr. websites which does such a good job of mocking him. On the other hand, doing this for profit might work against them...
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Actually, to say that Citrix and Microsoft are rivals in this market is a bit of an overstatement. The story is, Citrix developed (or expanded) NT with the capabilities to handle multiple users, and Microsoft has licenced this technology for NT Terminal server edition. In addition, I believe Microsoft has a significant ownership of Citrix.
Anyway, the biggest problem with any of these "remote windows NT" - systems is that Microsoft seem to think they can charge for anyone connecting to their servers. (Remember when microsoft wanted to sell web-servers with requirements to buy licences for everyone connecting to them?) This is exactly what they are doing with any thin-client technology based on Windows NT.
Actually, I think this could fairly be attributed to parody, and might therefore be legal. At least it is more fun than www.microsoft-sux.com websites, which usually recieve this exemption, contrast also the various George Bush jr. websites which does such a good job of mocking him.
On the other hand, doing this for profit might work against them...