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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!wave.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!snowdon.elsevier.co.uk!news From: Paul Richards <dpr> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 6 Dec 1995 15:10:49 GMT Organization: Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, UK Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4a4bpp$a49@snowdon.elsevier.co.uk> References: <489kuu$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> NNTP-Posting-Host: isis.elsevier.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.12 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) X-URL: news:DJ533J.DDs@kroete2.freinet.de Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:30226 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10375 comp.unix.advocacy:12172 comp.unix.misc:20076 erik@kroete2.freinet.de (Erik Corry) wrote: > >Don't think yourself immune to being overtaken by a commercial >version. It happened to XFree86. That case is slightly different, >because Thomas Roell, who started XInside was the main author of >X386 anyway, so he wasn't 'stealing' from anyone by making a >private version. > >-- >Erik Corry ehcorry@inet.uni-c.dk Umm. That tends to support John's position really since XFree86 holds its own very well against Xinside. They both have different qualities but XFree86 certainly hasn't been "overtaken" by a commercial version.