[ale] nomachine-Closed source?

[Greg Freemyer]

Well Jim, just fork it!


Seriously if the schools have a real need, there should be some way to
fork the latest opensource version and develop a support base for it.

After all freeNX is likely in several of the LTS products, so odds are
are high Redhat / Novell / Canonical all need someone working on
maintenance for the next few years.

As far as the project doing test builds for the LTS releases, OBS
offers Redhat 4/5/6 build support as well as SLES 9/10/11/11SP1.  (I
don't know how ubuntu LTS works, so I don't know if they have that or
not.)

If the the schools can work to organize the effort, I bet they can get
the code support from LTS vendors.  That would leave setting up a
project (on sourceforge?  Googlecode?) and providing leadership.

fyi: I haven't used freeNX in a couple years, so I'm not volunteering
at all to get involved in this.

Greg

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> Doesn't surprise me but it is a sad development. But with X in line for a
> major change it may not matter much in a while.
> Except that schools that have adopted Linux rely on their tools for remote
> access and maintenance so they get screwed.  Again.
> Grr.
>
> On Dec 22, 2010 6:57 AM, "Paul Cartwright" <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
>> does this matter to anyone??
>> An anonymous reader writes "NoMachine has sneakily revealed it is
>> closing its source of the NX compression technology with NX 4.0: 'This
>> release marks an important milestone in the history of the company.
>> Version 4.0 of the software, in fact, will be only available under a
>> closed source license.'"
>>
>> --
>> Paul Cartwright
>> Registered Linux user # 367800
>> Registered Ubuntu User #12459
>>
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