Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th Aug 2006 16:51 UTC, submitted by Raphael BE Vincenti
"2X today announced the release of 2X TerminalServer for Linux, an open source terminal server for Linux, which enables users to run a Linux desktop and Linux / Windows applications over any type of connection. "If Linux is going to happen on the desktop, it will require a terminal server approach such as that of 2X Terminal Server for Linux. Only with the more advanced thin client approach, will Linux be able to outdo Windows fat clients in a company's network. 2X is proud to contribute to this by opening the source code of its terminal server software for Linux."
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2006-08-30
I think this is PR bogus.
2x thin client is PXES linux distribution ( http://pxes.sf.net ) that the company bought and hired the main and only developer (Diego Torres Milano) a year and some months ago (IIRC). It has been always free (under GPL).
And for the terminal server: as it is based on nx libraries from nomachine.com, which are AFAIK released under GPL by !M, they are legally required to "open the source code". I would guess that someone pointed out that violation (or threatened them with lawsuit) and their PR department cooked up this hypocritical solution. Maybe I'm wrong, though.