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Re: [edlug] X Question - running on different machine
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 21:13, michael calwell wrote:
> But what gets me is this. Somehow, Windows, and all that Terminal Server
> crap, and then the whole Citrix Metaframe industry, have managed somehow
> to dominate a market that X just DOES. Just like that.
Yes this drives me bananas too.
Couple of other points:
Microsoft is so paranoid about anyone being able to obtain a desktop
without the MS tax being paid that there are a whole load of licensing
hoops to jump through before you deploy anything (ie more unnecessary
complication compared with X11).
If you dig around in the WINE development list you can find some old
discussion of, get this, porting WINE to Windows for the sole purpose of
using it (or at least its graphics component) to serve up windows apps
remotely over X11 to avoid the MS tax on clients. Nice idea, but I
don't think anything ever came of it.
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Tim Day - www.timday.com
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