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From: les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell)
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 16:54:45 -0600
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In article <DJ533J.DDs@kroete2.freinet.de>,
Erik Corry <erik@kroete2.freinet.de> 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.

But how can anyone say that they are not better off for the fact
that both commercial and free versions exist?  Would you prefer
that owners of some of the newer VGA cards simply be unable to run
X at all since the free versions don't support them?

Les Mikesell
  les@mcs.com