Licensing issues with Microsoft.

Tue Jun 17 13:04:00 2003

But even they aren't 100% sure,

"We believe that the above excerpt does not refer to pcAnywhere..."

You'd have thought they would have contacted M$ directly for confirmation on the matter!

Ben

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An interesting take from Symantec regarding pcAnywhere on this matter:

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/pca.nsf/395b2a511976725b88256b10002
f2c32/882628b00410062988256b8a0065b353?OpenDocument&sone=pca_105_tasks.h
tml&stg=3&prod=pcAnywhere&ver=10.5%20for%20Windows%2095/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
&base=http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/pca/&next=pca_105_contact_tscs_ot
her.html&src=sg&pcode=pca&svy=

(that should all be on one line above.)

Barry Zubel
Able Packaging Designs Ltd

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-----Original Message-----
From: vnc-list-admin@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-admin@realvnc.com] On
Behalf Of Simon Hobson
Sent: 17 June 2003 10:44
To: Nazim Khan; vnc-list@realvnc.com
Subject: Re: Licensing issues with Microsoft.

Nazim Khan wrote:

>Is there any problem in using VNC on Microsoft OSs  i.e
>Win95/Win2K/NT/XP. Any link or info about the same will be useful for
>me in making the decision about using the VNC.

Yes ! I'm not sure about the other versions, but the licence for XP
is quite explicit that use of 'remote control' packages other than
NetMeeting is NOT allowed. This isn't a case of not saying that
others are allowed, it explicitely states that they may not be used.

This isn't the end though. Many people (myself included) are
confident that this clause would be declared illegal under European
and (in my case) UK laws if Microsoft attempted to enforce it - but I
don't think anyone wants to be the subject of a test case ! In fact
there are still big question marks over the whole validity of 'shrink
wrap licences'.

Simon

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