Re: absolutely mind-blowing

[Ben McKeegan <Ben.McKeegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, David L. Parsley wrote:

> > 1) Who was the original developer, and has anyone heard from him/her in
> > a while?  Peter Bystrom seems to be the most active right now.
> 
> I just noticed that indeed, his name is Matt Chapman, and his name is
> emblazoned on the web page.  Still, I don't recall any posts by him on
> the mailing list; again, when was the last time anybody heard from him? 

See the list archive on rdesktop.org: there were some posts earlier on. 
As I understand it Matt is currently too busy with other stuff - I believe
he's the same Matt Chapman who is part of the Samba development team.

> Apparently he must be a good coder, since others were able to understand
> and modify rdesktop so easily and productively...

The code is quite nicely structured: I wrote a few of the patches. 
Incidentally, I've also been working through it in my spare time trying to
port it to java (although I haven't had much time for that lately). 

Ben.

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