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UK Lab Responsible for VNC To Close

Posted by chrisd on from the we-have-the-way-in dept.

NexUK writes "Guardian Online has an article about the imminent closure of the UK based AT&T lab , the place that brought us VNC, the popular desktop remote control system. The article talks about a nice "Toys" budget where the employees could buy gadgets without prior authorization." AT&T Strikes again, I'm surprised they haven't bought PARC and closed it down too.

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  1. Tragic? Maybe. by cloudscout · · Score: 2, Troll

    Nothing terribly revolutionary has come out of the UK Research group recently... at least nothing publicly announced. The bulk of useful VNC development in recent years has been done by 3rd parties working with the open VNC sources.

    While it's possible they could have come up with another killer product given their obvious talents, the dissolution of the group probably isn't that tragic for our industry.

    Other's have already listed URLs pointing to 3rd party VNC products (both freeware and otherwise) so I won't repeat them here but it's definitely worth your while to seek some of them out and support their work.

  2. Does this have to do with... by wo1verin3 · · Score: 1, Troll

    ... the fact that it's illegal to use VNC with WindowsXP now? :)

    source: WindowsXP License Agreement

  3. Lame header by wakaramon · · Score: 4, Troll

    "UK Lab Responsible for VNC To Close" is lame.
    A better header would be "AT&T Kills Lab that Created VNC".

    The "UK Lab" is responsible for VNC, not for its closure. AT&T is responsible for closing the lab.