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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!virtech!dwex From: dwex@aib.com (David E. Wexelblat) Subject: Re: X-Windows support for VGA boards Message-ID: <CFqsGp.80D@aib.com> Organization: AIB Software, Inc. References: <CFK83z.Gw5@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <CFL7t4.HJ@aib.com> <2ar9hg$lu1@fw.novatel.ca> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1993 03:31:36 GMT Lines: 36 In article <2ar9hg$lu1@fw.novatel.ca> hpeyerl@novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) writes: >David E. Wexelblat (dwex@aib.com) wrote: >: ethically-questionable tactics to work. And I still contend that an > >What's "ethically-questionable" is "What exactly does this have to do with >Net/Free-BSD???" > >-- >hpeyerl@novatel.ca | NovAtel Commnications Ltd. >hpeyerl@fsa.ca | <nothing I say matters anyway> > <NetBSD: A drinking group with a serious computing problem!> > When someone is harranguing XFree86 developers about not supporting Diamond products, I feel it is well with my rights to explain why we don't. In the same forum as the original note. So flame the original poster for putting it here, instead of comp.windows.x.i386unix where it belongs. Not me for responding with a detailed explanation of our position. Besides - it's BSD-du-jour users who are impacted by our policy, along with the Linux users. Commercial OS users can buy commercial X packages. So it is a reasonable thing to discuss here. And ethics of freeware is certainly reasonable to discuss in newsgroups that pertain solely to freeware. -- David Wexelblat <dwex@aib.com> (703) 430-9247 Fax: (703) 450-4560 AIB Software, Inc., 46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160, Dulles, VA 20166 Formerly Virtual Technologies, Inc. Mail regarding XFree86 should be sent to <xfree86@physics.su.oz.au> "If you don't expect too much from me, you might not be let down." -- Gin Blossoms, "Hey Jealousy"