[H-GEN] AN OFFBEAT QUESTION

[hphillips at 4ward.com.au]

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> First, I doubt that's legal: technical measures to circumvent license
> agreements are probably on shaky ground at best, and just because you can
> circumvent the technical measures, you're still required by Australian
> copyright law to obey those irritating shrinkwrap licenses, so...

What? I am not a lawyer but I can't see why that would violate any licensing laws.
The W2K box only allows 10 incoming connections, they are would only use 1
in that setup.

Maybe if anyone is (or knows) a copyright lawyer they could give a more authoritative
answer. I hope it falls on the legal side of things because I use a LM box and NAT
to connect my clients to the Internet (and myself) it might open up a HUGE can of
worms if NAT was considered illegal to connect to a licensed server.

> Second, whether it's legal or not, you probably wouldn't get any
> advantages from that over just setting up the Mandrake box as the server
> directly. In particular, you should still have any incompatibility
> problems you might've had with Mandrake as a server, and you'll have
> further problems depending on how unusual your configuration might be.
> 
> > You could setup the LM box as the PDC which the W2K box uses for it's
> > authentication etc...
> 
> So why not just get rid of the W2K box, and use the Mandrake box for
> everything?
> 

I know a lot of people in the GPL world don't like it but there are companies out
there that make applications with the express purpose of generating income.
They aim their product for the biggest market share for their target market, if that target
is small to medium businesses guess what most of THEM are running? (Hint it starts
with Microsoft.)

There are applications that ONLY run on a MS box, there are no other versions and
and no substitutes. I don't know the original posters exact situation but some of my clients
have decided on an application to run, and it must be run on a WinNT/2K/XP box, guess what I have had to setup for them. Maybe the app is the same and it won't run on
anything else.... Hate to disillusion you guys but *nix isn't the answer for everything.

Regards
Harry



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