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Next Knoppix Release to Feature GPL'd FreeNX
linuxtag-reporter writes "The first day of LinuxTag, Europe's biggest Free Software event (expecting 25,000 visitors) already has one big highlight. It seems that Fabian Franz from the Knoppix Project hacked up a 'FreeNX Server' based on NoMachine's NX technology (poor NoMachine might lose business now). Fabian Franz presented a first preview of the 'GPL Edition' in a live demo together with Kurt Pfeifle. The demo showed sessions going from Germany to Italy just based on a slow WLAN connectivity (shared with hundreds of visitors). A connection lost due to bad network conditions was easily re-connected to, and a deliberately suspended session was revitalized too -- it was just like 'screen' with a GUI! A report on the official LinuxTag webpage says FreeNX will be publically released for the first time as part of the upcoming Knoppix-3.6 release. The Kalyxo project is building and hosting Debian packages of FreeNX and NX/GPL for everyone to use."
What the hell is "innovative" or "creative" about stealing someone elses product idea and reimplemting it under open source?
Don't feel sorry for them. They tried to make a closed-source product, and they got exactly what they deserved.
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X11 is not like your little bitmapped Micros**t applications: colour depths, fonts, and of course extensions are implemented by the server, not by the client. They will vary between servers. If you want applications to move their connections from one server to another, they will have to re-map their fonts and colours and figure out what to do about missing extensions. Needless to say this will not be transparent to the application.
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