Re: absolutely mind-blowing

[Doug K Nordwall <nordwall@xxxxxxx>]

I just sent an email to microsoft asking them about the license for RDP.
You _have_ to sign an NDA to see it...I wonder why you have to sign it?

ANyways, i was mostly checking to make sure that no one would have some sort of licensing issue (or violate any) by using/creating rdesktop.

"David L. Parsley" wrote:

Doug K Nordwall wrote:
>
> slight error..I forgot the client access license on win2k..you can
> check out the licensing of temrinal server here
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/guide/server/pricing/terminal.asp

Ahh... yup that does the trick.  So it appears:

Just to connect to the server requires a CAL and either a TSCAL or W2K
Pro license.  I like the wording 'regardless of the protocol or software
used to interact with applications running on the server'.  Ok, I can
swallow this; there's nothing here preventing use of rdesktop.  The
other message I find kind of funny (the MS reply):

'Customers using third-party RDP clients from RDP licensees will receive
support from Microsoft via their usual channels in matters unrelated to
display or connection problems. Customers using non-licensed clients
cannot
receive this benefit.'

Oh darn, we've gotten so much high-quality support from MS this year.
That's baloney anyway.  As long as I've got, say, two machines with
licensed clients with which I could reproduce a problem, they would have
to support those.

Finally, I've been using Linux so long, it's just mindboggling to read
how it requires such-and-such licenses just to connect to the stupid
box.  What knuckleheads.  This reminds me: have any of you visited
http://www.ltsp.org?  That's the stuff I work with mostly.

regards,
        David

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David L. Parsley
Network Administrator
Roanoke College

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Douglas J Nordwall      http://rex.nmhu.edu/~musashi    
Scientist               Pacific Northwest National Labs