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Re:Enabling the WSL to include support for Wayland and X ser... by londons_explore on Monday April 26, 2021 @09:14AM (#26942172)
This is the day that Microsoft releases a product using FreeRDP, the reverse engineered implementation of their own RDP protocol...
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Re:Enabling the WSL to include support for Wayland and X ser... by aDfbrtVt on Monday April 26, 2021 @09:57AM (#26942527)
FreeRDP is not quite reverse engineered, the software built based on open specification for RDP[1]. That being said, I would be surprised if the FreeRDP contributors did not need Wireshark during development.

[1] https://winprotocoldoc.blob.core.windows.net/productionwindo...

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Re:Enabling the WSL to include support for Wayland and X ser... by londons_explore on Monday April 26, 2021 @10:53AM (#26943131)
Didn't FreeRDP start before Microsoft released that documentation?
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Re:Enabling the WSL to include support for Wayland and X ser... by aDfbrtVt on Monday April 26, 2021 @04:29PM (#26947656)
Possibly? Initial commit on FreeRDP is from 2011 while the oldest version listed on Microsoft's website is v0.01 from 2007. Not sure if that version of the documentation was publicly available.
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Re:Enabling the WSL to include support for Wayland and X ser... by londons_explore on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @03:24AM (#26953064)
FreeRDP's roots are in rdesktop which was released in 2001
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Re:Enabling the WSL to include support for Wayland and X ser... by nsonha on Monday April 26, 2021 @10:41AM (#26942987)
I don't get it why would they need to reverse engineer their own software? Was it some sort of RPC without an explicit protocol?
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Re:Enabling the WSL to include support for Wayland and X ser... by londons_explore on Monday April 26, 2021 @10:49AM (#26943089)
I guess they just decided the freerdp codebase (which already runs on Linux) was easier to work with than their codebase (which is deeply integrated into all things windows).

I think the original Microsoft codebase also uses stuff licensed from a third party, so it might have been impossible to opensource.

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