Elizabeth,
Most commercial, non-open-source software is not sold outright, only the
right to use it is.
While it's true that not all contracts and license agreements are legal and
/ or enforceable, if you agreed to it, which you had to do to accomplish
installation, then unless you bring
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Subject: Re: Is Cygwin legal under Windows XP?
This whole thing seems kind of iffy in regards to Microsoft's
position. While Microsoft has some authority
Hallo Doug,
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
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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
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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
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Or, Web servers which download Java, Javascript and ASP's.
Download is okay - the code is running on the remote machine and needs
a local (Java/.NET/ActiveX/WSH) licence to run there.
I
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IIS runs just fine here (XP Pro). It also runs fine on NT 4
workstation
and 2000 workstation.
Huh? I thought it'd only run on the Server version
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
Another issue is the number of clients served by a windows host running cygwin.
I remember that was an issue for O'Reilly for the web server they used to sell
for Windows - non-server versions of Windows were only licensed to serve a few
clients of any sort, and server versions of windows
This whole thing seems kind of iffy in regards to Microsoft's
position. While Microsoft has some authority, consumers do too and
Windows XP's EULA may violate some consumer rights (I don't know of
any off hand, though). But even if it doesn't violate any at the
moment, it violates what I consider
And what is this EULA anyway? I..
The smoking gun on the future intentions issue of the states lawsuit ,
IMHO :-)
Bruce Williams
Microsoft is sort of a mixture between the Borg and the
Ferengi. Combine the Borg marketing with Ferengi networking...
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