Hi Norbert,
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Norbert Federa <
norbert.fed...@thinstuff.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> First of all Thinstuff would like to congratulate Marc-Andre, Jay and
> all others in the FreeRDP team for creating such a great product!
>
Thanks, but as Jay mentioned, this is far from just me and Jay :P Vic, Mads,
Otavio, Eduardo, Nils, etc have all done substantial contributions as well.
You'll get to know them soon, I am sure of that ;)
>
> My name is Norbert Federa and I'm CTO at company Thinstuff which I'm
> running together with my long-term partner Michael Gibson.
> Some of you might still know me from
>
> http://rdesktop.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rdesktop/rdesktop/trunk/doc/AUTHORS
>
> well - that was 10 years ago ... see http://www.rdesktop.org/archive ;)
>
> Back then we were running a thin client company (brand name "Thintune")
> which was acquired by company Neoware in 2005.
> That was the time when we've founded company Thinstuff for developing
> RDP-based server-side software.
> Stuff like RDSH on Windows XP/Vista/7, RDP TWAIN redirection, Adobe
> Flash redirection, seamless apps, etc.
>
> 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.
>
I'm happy to hear that, hehe.
>
> Thinstuff has exhibited at CeBIT 2011 at the BITKOM Thin Client & Server
> Based Computing booth where some of the major thin client players had
> their booths next to us and proudly presented their "private rdesktop
> enhancements" - of course implemented as out-of-process vchannels.
>
> This really made me wonder ... Of course I do understand that they are
> afraid to lose their commercial advantage if they'd contribute their
> changes back.
> On the other hand these thin client companies have already received so
> much from the open source community.
>
> 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.
>
This is very good news, and it was hard to wait under an official
announcement was made to tell others :) I am truly excited about how things
are going, and I believe that Thinstuff has a genuine interest in pushing
FreeRDP forward. Our relationship has always been very good, and I think you
are perfect for taking this role in the future of our 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Yes, having me working on NLA was definitely a very welcome contribution to
FreeRDP. I think everybody is very happy that we finally got that feature,
it has been in demand for so long. There is a lot of work to be done in
order to make FreeRDP catch up with mstsc.exe, but I think that with those
announcements of new substantial resources being allocated to FreeRDP
development, we will be able to do it.
I would like to add that it has always been a pleasure to work with
Thinstuff from the beginning. They are very comprehensive and open minded
people with a true will to help the project grow as a whole. I would also
like to thank you for all that you have done for the project so far: this is
your official introduction to the FreeRDP community, but you have been
supporting us for much longer. I look forward to see how things will go with
the new alliance. I already spoke with a few of the members of this new
alliance, and they are all very excited. I, myself, am more than extremely
excited to see this happening, and I need to remind myself that yes, it is
truly happening :)
Best regards,
- Marc-Andre
>
> Cheers,
>
> Norbert
>
>
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