NX
technology
(Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_technology
Quote:
"Prior to version 4.0, NoMachine used the GNU General Public
License for the core NX technology, while at the same time
offering non-free
commercial NX solutions for the
enterprise,[4] free client and server products
for Linux and
Solaris and free client software for Microsoft Windows, Mac
OS X
and embedded systems".
On December 21, 2010, NoMachine announced that the
upcoming
NX 4.0 release would be closed-source only.[5]
Google
seemingly started Neatx (extension of FreeNX) but is
not doing anything with it
now?
Neatx
http://code.google.com/p/neatx/
"Neatx was developed by Google
for an internal project. That
project is now finished, and the source was
released for the
community to use/develop/benefit from. There is no active
development at this time.
So, is the FreeNX, and the Google NeatX
fork, orphaned with
no support (Google really should have kept active what they
started, or at least attempted to nurture it along, with a
special "Google
summer of code" effort, or something...?
And, NoMachine's NX server and
client, is now not open.
Nomachine
terms
http://www.nomachine.com/ar/view.php%3far_id=AR10B00018
"NX
Server and NX Client are commercial products,
distributed under a closed source
licence..."
There is a cost to maintain code. An existing
commercial
customer base, that is using NX (NoMachine) for support now,
they
have to renew and comply with a closed source license.
If you are betting your
business, based on the need for a
software you have become dependent on, then
what do you do?
...and long term, will NoMachine even pay any attention to
any
of the GPL'd code at all, where they just let it rot on
the vine, to the point
where it is totally dead?
Is this the type of direction that Oracle really
wants to
go?
What do you think?
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