Gudmund Areskoug > have you considered and tried Wine and/or CrossOver Office?
Way too risky considering the context. My question was merely to know if, as a way to save money on setting a full fledged Windows Server and TS licenses, it were easy to build an open-source alternative to TS on Windows. Our apps only work on Windows, I'm the only one here who knows Linux, and customers are totally clueless with things computers :-)
Phil Davey > What do you expect to gain from having "an open-source alternative to MS/Citrix" ? Microsoft's licencing basically says that if you *display* windows/office on a screen, by any means, you pay for the licence(s). So, whether you use MS terminal server, rdesktop or anything else, you still pay the cash.
As said above, our customers (small places, not much money) would be able to just use an XP host to act as server to 3-4 clients max, and run a free, open-source TS service appplication on the XP host.
Eugene Coetzee > I know that this entire thread is OT and absurd (someone looking for "open source" option for a terminal server on the LTSP mailing list and he just don't know here to look :-)
LTSP is one of the only two open-source projects I know that deal with TS/RDP technology. That would make it likely that people working on/with it would have some insights about how likely it is to write an open-source alternative to TS/Citrix for Windows. But I'm fine with being considered an idiot :-)
Thanks everyone for the input. Bottom line, I shouldn't expect an open-source solution for TS on Windows anytime soon, due both to technical and legal reasons.
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