The following excerpt is from Brian Livingston's 'Windows Manager' column, 18Mar2002: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/03/18/020318oplivingston.xml
I'm wondering if, in addition to possibly forbidding the use of VNC, this might also forbid installing Cygwin on WinXP and then using a remote connection to the WinXP PC with Cygwin's telnetd, rlogind, rshd, sshd or any X-Windows type of interface, unless you also have a WinXP license for the computer at the other end of the connection. I know this might be considered OT, but I thought it was worth raising the issue. Regards, Doug ~~~~~~~~~~~~ >From the article: Reader Frank Brown sent me a completely different concern about XP, relating to VNC (Virtual Network Computing), a free remote-access application I described last week (see "Your virtual network," InfoWorld, March 11). 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, nor may you permit any Device to use, access, display, or run the Product or Product's user interface, unless the Device has a separate license for the Product." That means using any software other than Microsoft's to view an XP desktop from Windows 2000 or any other operating system would violate the company's license agreement, in case you care. "I use VNC extensively to manage several hundred desktops daily," Brown says. "So for me this is a big deal, and a good reason to stay away from XP until I see significant value added compared to Win 2000. So far I haven't." -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/