Re: [rdesktop-users] RE: [Thinstation-general] MS Office licensing

[Chris M. <tec...@gm...>]

This is the the retarded circle I am talking about!!!
I think though with MEDIA center the RDP session is 'REMOTE ADMINISTRATION MODE'
which in M$ theory is used for administration and maintenance, and
isnt a shared multi-user RDP session like WIN2K/2K3 server




On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:10:12 -0400, Jean-Sebastien Trottier
<js...@em...> wrote:
> Just to stir things up a bit...
> 
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 06:02:38PM -0700, Chris Rogers wrote:
> > On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:17:08 -0700, Chris Rogers <ch...@an...> wrote:
> > [...snip...]
> > > Microsoft's OEM software licensing agreements offer no provisions for
> > > operation of that software in a terminal server environment, or indeed in
> > > any environment outside of the realm of the hardware which was originally
> > > purchased to fulfill the obligations of the agreement.  In strictest
> > > terms, the only system that can legally run the software under an
> > > OEM license is the system that has the software pre-installed on it
> > > by the system manufacturer.  Outside of that, you're treading on
> > > thin legal ice.
> 
> One of my computers came with a pre-installed OEM WinXP Media Center...
> does this mean I need additional OEM WinXP Media Center licenses just to
> login through RDP?
> 
> But you're saying that an OEM license cannot be used on systems other
> than the pre-installed one... Thus, shouldn't Microsoft disable RDP on
> OEM versions of windows?
> 
> Cheers,
> Sebastien
>