No license to rdesktop for me: I recentl ... / 2010-02-18

No license to rdesktop for me: I recently got a really weird error from rdesktop:

koos@leek:~$ rdesktop -M -g 1200x900 -d something terminalserver
Autoselected keyboard map en-us
disconnect: No valid license available.

Some searching found me: License to rdesktop. Indeed, setting a different hostname from my own hostname helps:

koos@leek:~$ rdesktop -M -g 1200x900 -d something -n leeks terminalserver
Autoselected keyboard map en-us
/users/koos/.rdesktop/licence.leeks.new: Permission denied
WARNING: Remote desktop does not support colour depth 24; falling back to 16

The license file error has to do with another workaround. But maybe the running out of licenses for 'leek' is because I never give licenses back. Why is all this software very busy with making sure money is made for its maker and not busy with helping the user.