Linked by David Adams on Tue 28th Oct 2008 16:14 UTC, submitted by M-Saunders
GNU, GPL, Open Source Free Software/open source often gets a bad rap for innovating. It just rips-off the work of commercial developers, right? Not so, as this Linux Format piece argues. FLOSS has pioneered, or been a catalyst in, some notable changes in the computing world. Several of these innovations are OS-related.
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by tbutler67 on Tue 28th Oct 2008 19:00 UTC
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Regardless of VNC's pedigree, as the other poster said, remote desktop software has been around a long time. Farallon's Timbuktu has been around since the late 80's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbuktu_(software)