X compression techniques (was Re: VNC server based on kdrive using damage extension?)

[Mike A. Harris]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:

>Look even more closely! All that's important for you *is* GPL.
>What you can compile from the sources is ready to serve you
>on the commandline to build a connection with highly efficient
>differential compression and cachinng. Better than anything I
>have seen before. Free for all to use who agree with the GPL.
>
>On top of the GPL'd libraries, nomachine.com also offer a
>commericial, proprietary product. So what? It is dead-cheap,
>if you ask me, and worth every penny.

So what?  How does that software in any way contribute to the 
development of xserver, kdrive, or any future X development?

Simple answer:  It doesn't.

If you want to use their solution, by all means go right ahead, 
and if their product built on top of it is whippy-snappy for you, 
fantastic.  Jump up and down screaming how great it is.

That does not in any way benefit or affect the development of the 
X Window System at all, and as such, whatever merits that 
software may or may not have for you or others, it is useless to 
the purposes of this mailing list, or for the future development 
of the X Window System.



-- 
Mike A. Harris