Re: [Sheflug] Back to Windows

[Neil R Porter <n.r.porter [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 08:57, Alex Hudson wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 23:27, Neil R Porter wrote:
> > Here here.  Although point 1, I get VNC server to work beautifully on my
> > XP machine and use the client on here (Mandrake 9.0 laptop), so my wife
> > can check her email without having to go into the attic.  Unless I've
> > missed your point?  'unusable for licensing reasons'?
> 
> As Adam pointed out, it's against your product licence agreement to run
> programs which "project the XP desktop" elsewhere (It's not specifically
> a number of users thing, it's a look and feel thing). And, given you're
> allowing MS to check the software on your system with SP1, they might
> decide to nuke VNC / your data / your XP for licencing violation.
> 
> Funnily enough, projecting your desktop with the Microsoft solution is
> perfectly okay with the licence...
> 

Turns out I can't install SP1 on my machine.  I wonder why :)

I'll carry on ducking and diving until I find an alternative to needing
it for Quicken.

Thanks

Neil


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