[Spice-devel] Spice for commercial use

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 01:10 -0800,
spice-devel-request at lists.freedesktop.org wrote:
> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 06:24:34 -0800
> From: Tom Holmes <tomholmes at live.com>
> To: <spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org>
> Subject: [Spice-devel] Spice for commercial use
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> 
> Hello!
> Can Spice be used for commercial use, if so are there licensing fees
> that are applied?  Would you say Spice is comparable to RDP, ICA and
> PCOIP?  Can Spice be used to access a Windows Desktop?
> Thank you so much!Tom
> 
I have not used PCoIP but, from what I understand, SPICE would be most
similar to that.  Fundamentally, all four are providing the same primary
functionality - remote desktops.  In my experience, RDP and ICA are a
little more responsive over a WAN/Internet connection right now but do
not handle multimedia as well as SPICE.  I mean RDP6 and above - RDP5
was terrible over a WAN.  I believe, as video becomes more important and
as SPICE improves its video capability, perhaps with an inter-frame
compression algorithm instead of MJPEG, it will become our remote
desktop protocol of choice :) - John