[Animus7]

> In our blind rush to make everything run on the web and take as much control out of the hands of the users as possible we are turning web browsers into vastly bloated VNC clients?

This stuff is GPL'd, so I don't see how it takes control away from users. On the contrary, this would give you far more control than you get from using any other solution, since you can host it yourself.

And yes, it's like VNC, but I don't see how it would be inherently more bloated.

Personally I welcome the trend towards software that can be used on any machine with a browser.

[streptomycin]

> This stuff is GPL'd, so I don't see how it takes control away from users.

If you take GPL code and run it on a server, you don't have to release your modifications.