Linked by David Adams on Tue 28th Oct 2008 16:14 UTC, submitted by M-Saunders
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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2008-10-28
Really? Wikipeda sure don't say that it started out closed-source. "
Fair enough, but google for "vnc orl" and you'll find:
http://grox.net/doc/apps/vnc/free.html (Why are we giving it away?)
"When we made our high-performance CORBA implementation, omniORB, available recently, it was exceedingly popular and so we are releasing VNC on the same terms and conditions: those of the GNU General Public Licence."
and:
http://grox.net/doc/apps/vnc/internalversion.html (VNC - the internal ORL version)
"Some of the functionality of the distributed VNC system is limited when compared to the version we use within ORL. This is not because we wish to deprive the rest of the world of a more sophisticated system, but because we want VNC to be easy to download and set up [...]"
If you're in a hurry it might be easy to miss, but the copyright notice at the bottom of both pages reads 1998 -- I'm new here, but I'm not used to speak unless I know what I'm talking about! ;-)