Compare TightVNC to RealVNC

James Weatherall jnw "at" realvnc.com
Mon Sep 4 10:22:01 2006


> >> TightVNC is a hobby project based on our old VNC 3 system.
> 
> "hobby" .. ?
> that's one way to name open-source-software

While a significant proportion of open-source software is written by
hobbyists, that doesn't mean that they all are!  The original VNC 3 system
was a research project at Olivetti & Oracle Research Labs Cambridge, for
example.  And by your reasoning, Linux is a hobby project... ;)

Cheers,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.