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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.engr.udayton.edu!blackbird.afit.af.mil!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news1.digital.com!pa.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!usenet From: Larry Smith <lcs@zk3.dec.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sometimes you need X server source (Was: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 13:41:46 -0500 Organization: Digital Equipment Corp. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <315C2EEA.167E@zk3.dec.com> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <4j36ev$prl@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> <4ja099$r8k@ceylon.gte.com> <4ja28c$9da@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4jb67e$eil@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <ROELL.96Mar28184328@blah.xinside.com> <315C1D51.41C67EA6@rah.star-gate.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nautilus.zk3.dec.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; OSF1 T4.0 alpha) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:13976 comp.os.linux.development.system:20438 comp.os.linux.x:28230 comp.os.linux.hardware:35072 comp.os.linux.setup:48415 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:394 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2917 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2687 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16414 Amancio Hasty, Jr. wrote: > Hey Thomas, take it easy. There are people who are not willing > to pay a dime for software and those you will never be able to > convince to buy software. And there are people like me who are perfectly willing to pay a decent price for their software - provided it comes with the source. I've got quite enough bruises from dealing with endless Microshaft bugs with no hope of ever fixing it myself and damned little support, thanks. I'm not going to lock myself into some- one _else's_ idea of when a bug needs to be fixed. Not again. It was a brutal, painful, expensive lesson, but I learned it. I'd cheerfully pay $200 for an accelerated X-server - if it came with source. But if it doesn't, I won't, it costs me no more to just boost the speed with faster hardware if need be necessary.