Authors

The original authors of version 1.3 (now legacy).

Chris Schoeneman	crs23@users.sourceforge.net	Creator, owner, primary developer
Ryan Breen	ryan@ryanbreen.com	Initial Mac OS X port
Guido Poschta	moolder@gmx.net	Windows installer
Bertrand Landry Hetu	bertrand@landryhetu.com	Mac OS X port
Tom Chadwick	vttom@users.sourceforge.net	PageUp/PageDown on X servers without mouse wheel support
Brent Priddy	toopriddy@users.sourceforge.net	Re-resolving server hostname on each connection

The first incarnation of synergy was CosmoSynergy, created by Richard Lee and Adam Feder then at Cosmo Software, Inc., a subsidiary of SGI (nee Silicon Graphics, Inc.), at the end of 1996. They wrote it, and Chris Schoeneman contributed, to solve a problem: most of the engineers in Cosmo Software had both an Irix and a Windows box on their desks and switchboxes were expensive and annoying. CosmoSynergy was a great success but Cosmo Software declined to productize it and the company was later closed.

Synergy is a from-scratch reimplementation of CosmoSynergy. It provides most of the features of the original and adds a few improvements.

See also: Related software