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Free alternatives

Users should know that there are free alternatives. I have added RealVNC in combination with BarracudaDrive as one possible alternative. I urge users to add other types of alternatives.

Hmmm ... much as I support FLOSS, I don't think 'free alternatives' belongs here.

This page describes a company, not the remote control software market. I think a discussion of specific competitive threats to GoToMyPC's business would be relevant -- but I don't think we'll find any citation supporting the 'free alternatives' as threats to GoToMyPC's bottom line. Even a brief discussion of the remote control software marketplace and technologies, free and not-free, would be appropriate, if there's not already a pages covering that.
It's original research.
It looks like advocacy: Why limit it to Free alternatives? Why not other alternatives (e.g., Webex, etc.)? Why these in particular, when there are so many out there? I don't think we should list all remote control software in the GoToMyPC article.

There is already a "See Also" section and "Category: Remote Administration Software" where readers can find links to other products. Unless someones says something convincing, I am going to remove this section, moving any links to products to 'See Also'

Guanxi 16:16, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Receiving no response, I made the changes. Guanxi 01:49, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's heartbreaking to see people paying for this product that's probably already built into their computer (Windows XP or Vista). Nonetheless, I agree it smells too much like advocacy to simply list "free" alternatives. It's not the job of wikipedia to be an antidote for extremely pervasive marketing campaigns. Maybe a list of the competetition is the best that can be done. Someone please start or continue an appropriate list. 71.72.120.20 16:08, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reorganization and revison

The article has been reorganized and revised to include a history of technology and business development, product editions, vendor claims for the 2006 release 5, and numerous references.

Craig Bolon 21:51, 25 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This article was nominated for deletion on April 7, 2006. The result of the discussion was keep, no consensus. An archived record of this discussion can be found here.

Merge proposal

There being notihng much to merge (the two were originally, I think, pretty much the same content), I have mage Gotomypc a redirect. Just zis Guy you know? 08:41, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is probably not of interest after reorganization of the article Craig Bolon 21:51, 25 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

GoToMyPC uses VNC?

The first sentence says,

It provides remote desktop or Virtual Network Computing (VNC) access to Windows PCs.

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is an open source technology that is packaged into many products. It is not a generic term for remote access. Also, GoToMyPC does not use VNC as far as I know, and I was unable to find any evidence of it with quick research. Unless someone can cite something to back it up, I'll remove VNC from that sentence.Guanxi 16:50, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Guanxi 14:06, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

requires 'already' knowing

no 'basic' info here; reader must already understand this; so someone wants to setup gotomypc meeting: are they wanting access to my computer, or me access theirs? if access to theirs, what do they know or need to know about mine? how does it compare to toll free phone numbers in that the number calling from shows?

Origins of GoToMyPC in context

The last paragraph in this section contains the string "used by hundreds of thousands of people across the world," which sounds like it isn't appropriate (marketing speak? Or just citation needed?)

Also, the title of this section is confusing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.86.99.151 (talk) 10:53, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

LogMeIn?

I see that somebody has made LogMeIn into a red link. There is currently no article about LogMeIn and the page is protected. It got deleted a couple of times due to failure to assert notability and promotional tone. The second deletion was rather harsh, in my view, and I have been working on an acceptable version at User:DanielRigal/LogMeIn but I have stalled a bit. If anybody wants to help out with that then please feel free. Once the article is up to scratch, I think it should be possible to get the protection removed and move the article into place. --DanielRigal (talk) 21:08, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ad?

The "Origins of GoToMyPC in context" sounds like a giant ad to me. 65.6.213.12 (talk) 23:01, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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 I see that somebody has made LogMeIn into a red link. There is currently no article about LogMeIn and the page is protected. It got deleted a couple of times due to failure to assert notability and promotional tone. The second deletion was rather harsh, in my view, and I have been working on an acceptable version at [[User:DanielRigal/LogMeIn]] but I have stalled a bit. If anybody wants to help out with that then please feel free. Once the article is up to scratch, I think it should be possible to get the protection removed and move the article into place. --[[User:DanielRigal|DanielRigal]] ([[User talk:DanielRigal|talk]]) 21:08, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
+== Ad? ==
+The "Origins of GoToMyPC in context" sounds like a giant ad to me. [[Special:Contributions/65.6.213.12|65.6.213.12]] ([[User talk:65.6.213.12|talk]]) 23:01, 18 February 2008 (UTC)