----- Original Message ----- > From: "John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Thursday, March 7, 2013 2:35:10 PM > Subject: Re: Spice for commercial use > > On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 01:10 -0800, > spice-devel-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 06:24:34 -0800 > > From: Tom Holmes <tomholmes@xxxxxxxx> > > To: <spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: Spice for commercial use > > Message-ID: <BLU170-W120A85A49F95B3126C2236EC5E40@xxxxxxx> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > > > 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 The goal is the same but concept how to achieve it is (afaik) completely different. PCoIP is a UDP stream of rendered pixels on host (with some support to offload image encoding to special hardware cards) while Spice is a TCP stream of graphics commands to be rendered on the client. > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Spice-devel mailing list > Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel > _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel