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From: Dan DOT Pop AT ifh DOT de (Dan Pop)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.arch.embedded,alt.comp.hardware,comp.lang.c++,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Windows XP gotchas
Date: 28 Mar 2002 15:21:45 GMT
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In <3CA2E3A7 DOT D9B183F0 AT yahoo DOT com> CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com> writes:

>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.

Yet, a comment was badly needed, to explain why you've cross-posted this
text to a bunch of newsgroups where it is grossly off-topic.

Dan
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