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From: hafner@dartpub.augusta.de (Walter 'madhouse' Hafner)
Subject: XFree [was: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD]
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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
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>>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