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So what exactly does remote control mean?
Looks like everyone with USB Keyboards will have to get an XP licence for
the Code in the keyboard microcontroller.
Then there is the mouse and the joystick (PS I'd like to meet the person who
came up with the noun Joystick, bet they have a good sense of humour).
Oh hang on I've assumed that the licence agreement is read and understood
and enforced and cared about etc...
I'm more worried about the scary people out there reading licence agreements
before they install software. Let me see average install time for a home pc
when reading every licence agreement would be about 2^16 years on a Dos,
95,98 system and 2^32 years on NT,2k,XP.
I can't believe I wasted so much time rambling on about this you really
shouldn't be still reading at this point.



"Rene Tschaggelar" <tschaggelar AT dplanet DOT ch> wrote in message
news:3CA30797 DOT B59EA9B9 AT dplanet DOT ch...
> Surprised ?
>
> Rene
>
> CBFalconer wrote:
> >
> > Terje Mathisen wrote:
> > >
> > > Buried within the Windows XP licence is a statement that makes it
> > > explicitely illegal to use any form of remote control sw not on a
> > > pre-approved list (only MS apps are on this list: Suprised?).
> > >
> > > If you still want to do it, you must first buy a separate XP
> > > licence for each system that might use VNC or similar sw to take
> > > control of the XP machine!
> >
> > Forwarded from alt.folklore.computers without further comment.