Re: [edlug] X Question - running on different machine

[michael calwell <michael.calwell@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

Tim Day wrote:

> 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.
>
>  
Furthermore...

It infuriates me that so many people have made so much money - an entire 
industry - out of the failure to function properly, the inadequacy of 
design,  or the structural weaknesses of MS. People are out there 
driving Very Expensive Cars and living in Very Big Houses simply as a 
virtue the whole anti-virus or IIS security holes thing. And when they 
talk, and they DO talk, they talk as if Computers == Microsoft. Now that 
blase ignorance does drive me bananas.

Don't get me started on the staggeringly jumped up numpties that swan 
around companies pontificating because they once ran regedit and changed 
a value, or installed IIS on Windows 2000...


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