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From: roell@xinside.com (Thomas Roell)
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Subject: Re: Sometimes you need X server source (Was: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium)
Date: 30 Mar 1996 12:51:44 GMT
Organization: X Inside Inc.
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>  Since Xinside gets their base code from XF86
>   (who gets it from the X Consortium) my guess is that things like that
>   are either compatable already, or can easily be put back in the code once

For a comment like this I usually shoot people. X Inside starts with X
Consortium code, and NOTHING that has to do with XF86. Please keep
that straight, since you rwording implies we would use (read steal)
code from XF86. And this is one of the worst offenses you can make to my
person (who happens to write drivers for Accelerated-X), that we would
haven sunken to deeply that we had to use this broken code.

IMHO, Xfree86 is STOCK X11R6 plus a few sample sample clients
precompiled. The only thing that makes this distribution different
from what you get from the X Consortium (and got long time before some
folks tried to make themselfs a name for stuff other people have been
doing) is that they have added an X-Server for Intel UNIXes.

- Thomas

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