Michael, Folks: I hate chewing up bandwidth saying "I agree" but that was awfully well stated. I do hope AT&T does, in fact, bring out an update and make some modest improvements to VNC so that, as you put it, they put their blessing on an updated version. In the grand scheme of things, the expense would be small to AT&T and a lot of us IT folk will remember such when making various and sundry decisions.
We have been using VNC for about three years now and consider it among our most valuable networking tool. Alexander In Toronto -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael F. March Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 9:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AT&T All these forks of VNC development have been great and they show that VNC development is by no means stagnant. The issue I think is on most people's mind (or mine at least) is that we all look to AT&T as the 'pure' source of VNC and from time to time we would like AT&T to take the "best of the best" features of all the features that have been brewing out there and incorporate them into AT&T's own version. I don't think people want AT&T to go nutz and put in every feature that comes down the pike but things like Tight encoding which I think everyone agrees should be core functionality at some point should be blessed by AT&T by putting it into a future release. Having the AT&T version somewhat current will insure that more people will contribute to VNC. If some organization wants to extent VNC now, they have to pick from all these non-official forks to base their extended functionality on. Have the AT&T branch less stale makes this less of an issue. My fear is that some people might be holding back work on VNC because they are waiting for AT&T to catch up on some functionality that they feel is missing. Another issue... The longer AT&T waits to put out another version of VNC, the harder it will be for the other forks to 'sync' to the AT&T branch if they find that is one of their goals. [snip] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
