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Whenever I meet clients, I sometimes forget some important files in the office and I get frustrated about this because my clients might think that I am not well-prepared for the presentation and that could ruin my chances of getting the project. As we know, first impressions can make or break you. Sometimes, when I have a lot of work to do, I decide to bring some stuff home and it irritates me when I realize that I forgot to bring other important files.

Through the widespread banner ads and pay-per-click ads, GoToMyPC has become popular and I decided to search for an open source alternative for me not to spend money.

I searched for “gotomypc opensource alternative” in Google and the first result was an entry from Wikipedia shown on the screenshot below:

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As you notice, it indicates an open source alternative:

[edit] External Links. GoToMyPC Web site for software installation and computer access. TightVNC An open source alternative …

I checked out the page but I no longer found the opensource alternative in Wikipedia.

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So I checked the cache from the search result hoping that the old text is still there and I was right…

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Then I found out about TightVNC and decided to use that link instead. http://www.tightvnc.com/download.html

After what I encountered regarding my search on an opensource alternative for GoToMyPC, it occurred to me that maybe GoToMyPC themselves have been editing their own Wikipedia entry or they may have hired bloggers to edit GoToMyPC entries found in Wikipedia just like Microsoft who allegedly paid bloggers to look for Microsoft entries in Wikipedia and edit them for Microsoft’s advantage.

Do you think that GoTOMyPC will really make such a move to protect their own product?