History
VNC was created at the Cambridge, UK Olivetti & Oracle Research Lab (ORL ), which was then owned by Olivetti and Oracle Corporation. In 1999 AT&T acquired the lab, and in 2002 closed down the lab's research efforts.
Developers who worked on VNC while still at the AT&T Research Lab are:
- Tristan Richardson (inventor)
- Andy Harter (project leader)
- Quentin Stafford-Fraser
- James Weatherall
Following the closure of ORL in 2002, several members of the development team (including Richardson, Harter, Weatherall and Hopper) formed RealVNC in order to continue working on open source and commercial VNC software under that name.
Several other versions of VNC have been developed from the original GPLed source code. Such forking has not led to compatibility problems because the RFB protocol is designed to be extensible. VNC clients and servers negotiate their capabilities with handshaking in order to use the most appropriate options supported at both ends.
The term "VNC" is now a registered trademark of RealVNC Ltd. in the United States and other countries.
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