A commercial message licensing rights were bought by White Pine Software in December 1998 and the product was so freed a commercial product. Unluckily, White Pine Programs ignored a original hobby market of CU-SeeMe users & attempted to compete against devices aided streaming videos-conferencing corporations. It were when well early for acceptance as audio/video quality was an issue at a period (excessive latency) & so a product was sole utile to hobbyists.

White Pine Programs was after bought by First Virtual Communications and at some point a client was renamed just CU & was mass produced section of the fee-depending streaming video chat service known as [http://www.cuworld.com/ CUworld]. A client evolved farther, was renamed "Click To Meet" & became a major offering of Foremost Virtual.

Foremost Virtual filed for bankruptcy in January 20, 2005 & [http://biz.yahoo.com/e/050318/fvccq.pk8-k.html the assets were acquired] by RADvision on March 15, 2005. RADvision continues to offer a product across [http://www.clicktomeet.com/ clicktomeet.com].

There exists however the microscopic however active community of users world health organization prove my point to have cu-seeme. Although there experienced been there are no releases of software program from either a various incarnations of White Pine since in 2000, there are freeware choice available for each Windows & Macintosh platforms. a look for of the web may quickly make contact with the CU-SeeMe "reflectors" that come however operational.