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Short Notice: LogMeIn To Discontinue Free Access

Posted by timothy on from the how-much-friction-can-be-applied dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The remote desktop service LogMeIn sent an email to its users today notifying them that 'LogMeIn Free' will be discontinued — as of today. This is a major shock with minimal warning to the millions of users who have come to rely on their service, made all the more surprising by the fact that 'consensus revenue estimates for LogMeIn in 2014 are $190.3 million,' suggesting that their system of providing both free and paid accounts for what is ultimately a straightforward service that could be duplicated for well under $1 million was already doing quite well." Asks reader k280: "What alternative tools are available for free, and how do they compare to LogMeIn?"

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  1. Re:Uh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    and I make sure the people I support have the necessary port forwards for ssh using keys.

    Yea that compares to Logmein. Did you tip your fedora while you wrote that spew?

  2. Re:Uh? by WillyWanker · · Score: 4, Funny

    Personally I just cross the streams, align my Heisenberg compensators, and make sure my flux capacitor is online and I can tunnel into any machine using a combination of TTFN, IDK, LOL, and h(u)sh. Pretty simple.

    But, y'know, if you want to be all lazy and shit you can just use Gbridge.

  3. xkcd did it by richlv · · Score: 4, Funny

    well. i know i should not. but it just seems to repeat again and again, and this seems so relevant...

    http://xkcd.com/1150/

    --
    Rich
  4. Re:Uh? by router · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah I dunno man, I have pretty much switched to reddit. Their comment sorting makes most of the losers disappear, or something. /. used to cater to people like you, who make excellent posts. Now you are yelled at by trolls. I don't understand it. You even posted the command for fscks sake!

    Don't go too far, some of us still appreciate informed posts.

    andy