[K12OSN] Sharing Windows Applications to the desktop

["Terrell Prudé, Jr."]

I've been playing around w/ Crossover Office, since I have a guy who 
needs to run Time Matters 5.0.  It's just a matter of him getting me the 
CD to test with.  Just for kicks, I went back a few years and tried Word 
NT 6.0 (i. e. 32-bit Word 6.0 for Windows NT) and Excel NT 5.0 on Xover, 
and though I had to manually make icons, they did indeed install and, 
with the exception of the help system, run very well.  Xover is not that 
much, per seat, and if the "needed Windows app" runs with it, it solves 
the Windows CAL issue.  Of course, OpenOffice.org obviates the need for 
Microsoft Office...but if you've just got to run, say, SASIxp (a friend 
of mine had it working with WINE), you can.

In any case, there are virtually always viable alternatives--most of 
them either Free Software or based on Free Software--to subjecting one's 
self to Microsoft's draconian license terms, or anything similar.

--TP

William J McCloskey wrote:

>I was just looking at the Riverdale case study on k12ltsp.org and wondered
>if anyone had tried in as a replacement for using rdesktop and terminal
>services.
>
>You would need licenses for each client, but terminal licenses are often
>cheaper.
>
>William J.
>
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>Of Terrell Prudé
>Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 4:38 AM
>To: Support list for opensource software in schools.
>Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Sharing Windows Applications to the desktop
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>Samps wrote:
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>>anthony baldwin wrote:
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>>>Is it not a violation of M$'s mercenary licensing strictures to share 
>>>these apps over a network via LTSP without purchasing a license for 
>>>each terminal?
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>>>
>>I don't know about the Microsoft licensing structure where you are 
>>situated but it is a violation in South Australian schools.
>>
>>cheers
>>Samps
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>Same here in the United States.  You do that, you're risking becoming 
>the next Ernie Ball.  That's a lot of the point of Free Software in the 
>first place--freedom from being assumed a criminal until proven innocent.
>
>William J., can you tell us more about your situation that makes you 
>want to run specifically Microsoft Office on an LTSP architecture, when 
>K12LTSP already comes with OpenOffice.org 1.1?  Perhaps we can suggest 
>some alternative solutions for your situation.
>
>--TP
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