Licensing MS Office for Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Server)

[lsi]

So Microsoft wants us to purchase a license for each user that will be using MS Office in a remote desktop session which comes to a ridiculous price. I understand the concept of Office being desktop software and it doesn't matter if you use it on your desktop or on your remote session - it still needs to be licensed per device/user. My question is - if my customer purchases 20 Office 2010 OLP licenses for their Terminal Server, shouldn't they also be able to install those 20 licenses on their normal desktop computers? when they aren't connected to the Terminal Server they are using Office on their local workstations and vice versa. Any opinions on this?

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

I look at current user...same user account.
Terminal Server 08 needs the volume licensing for Office.

If they have "desktops" though...why not just built TSGateway function of Remote Desktop Services...and have it proxy their RDP client to their desktop. Instead of setting up a Remote Desktop Services server (previously known as terminal server) and setting up a whole new profile for each user.