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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.dfn.de!nntp.fh-augsburg.de!mubo.abg.sub.org!dartpub.augusta.de!hafner From: hafner@dartpub.augusta.de (Walter 'madhouse' Hafner) Subject: XFree [was: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD] Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Sender: hafner@dartpub.augusta.de (System Administrator) Organization: eAUmamV Lines: 23 Message-ID: <HAFNER.95Dec8004546@dartpub.augusta.de> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <49rm0g$o8o@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> <DJ2IBL.71t@nntpa.cb.att.com> <DJ3DM7.n0L@kroete2.freinet.de> <4a14v5$1lq@dyson.iquest.net> <DJ533J.DDs@kroete2.freinet.de> In-Reply-To: erik@kroete2.freinet.de's message of Wed, 6 Dec 1995 00:38:06 GMT Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 23:45:46 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:29642 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10015 comp.unix.advocacy:11885 comp.unix.misc:19921 >>On Wed, 6 Dec 1995 00:38:06 GMT, erik@kroete2.freinet.de (Erik Corry) said: EC> Don't think yourself immune to being overtaken by a commercial EC> version. It happened to XFree86. That case is slightly different, EC> because Thomas Roell, who started XInside was the main author of EC> X386 anyway, so he wasn't 'stealing' from anyone by making a EC> private version. BZZZZT! As a close friend of Thomas I feel inclined to say something about that: As far as I recall the whole story, Thomas was the _only_ author of XFree (or X386 at that time). When he joined Mark Snitily (Sp?) of SGCS he gave away the sources he developed so far because the next server version with _major_ rewrites was just finished. Only from then on the XFree Server was developed by a team of developers! From that point of view I think the term "stealing" shouldn't even be considered. BTW: AFAIK (don't know the other members of XInside, sorry), Thomas is still the only developer (or: "Chief Scientist", according to his business card :-)) of Xaccel. -Walter