Re: The FreeRDP fork

On 03/14/2011 10:52 PM, Peter Åstrand wrote:
> The main problem is that rdesktop lacks active developers.

I might be wrong, but I really feel that a lot of developers are (or 
were) willing to contribute to rdesktop, but many of them are just being 
ignored.

For example myself. 2 years ago I started to work on separating an RDP 
library from rdesktop UI, and almost done. I sent my idea but got no 
response from rdesktop. I will translate such silence as "No thanks, 
it's too huge re-architecture and we don't want it (because we don't 
need it)". Then I was introduced to FreeRDP and I was happy to see my 
idea was fully aligned with their goal, and I was happy to join them.

So back to the question of the topic: was it necessary to fork rdesktop? 
 From the FreeRDP source codes I found the answer is yes.

Vic


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