Hi Norbert, > First of all Thinstuff would like to congratulate Marc-Andre, Jay and > all others in the FreeRDP team for creating such a great product!
I think the unmentioned guys here did more that Marc and I. Vic, Mads, Otavio, Eduardo. I hope I didn't miss anyone. > What we'd really like to see is a free open source RDP client > implementation compatible with all major mobile and desktop > operating systems providing the full set of features of the Windows RDP > 7.1 client - and we think freerdp is the best candidate. Yup. > Still at CeBIT we've been talking to the very nice guys from > http://openthinclient.org (probably the only thin client company which > is 100% open sourced). > They shared our view of this nuisance and together we came to the > conclusion that it would be really cool to create a feature diff > (freerdp vs. mstsc) and ask companies with a "moral obligation" or > commercial interest to sponsor or directly contribute to the > development of one or several of these missing features. > As in "You contribute 1 piece and you will get 19 for free". > We've also been thinking of some kind of freerdp alliance in order to > get a decent publicity. > For that reason we've invited Thomas Uhl (author of several Linux books, > vice-chairman at http://www.lisog.org) for a chat. > He was quite excited and the outcome was > "openthinclientalliance.org"|"ZeroClientAlliance.org" ... also see > http://twitter.com/tuhl/status/43988454324965376. > Now Thinstuff becomes Lisog member and will drive this alliance which > will be managed by Michael Gibson. > Of course all of this is just in the very early beginning but it looks > really promising. ... we will post more details later when the project > is up and running. I think that sounds great. I'm always wary of any one company influence too much so as long as there is several members of the alliance, it should work. I would like to setup some payment system for people working on this project and maybe even have some full time people working on the project. > Meanwhile I'd also like to inform you that Thinstuff is contributing > substantial human and financial resources (relative to our size of 7 > people) directly to the freerdp project. Thanks much for that we really needed NLA. I tried to help Marc all I could but he pretty much did it all. > In fact we have already sponsored the NLA implementation which was > recently done by Marc-Andre and our employee Martin Fleisz has started > working on libfreerdpgdi. > Martin will continue to work full-time on FreeRDP and hopefully we will > also be able to add more resources in the near future. I have some ideas for libfreerdpgdi as well :) Jay ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Freerdp-devel mailing list Freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel
