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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5186 ; Tue, 22 Dec 92 08:01:06 EST Xref: sserve comp.windows.x.i386unix:68 comp.unix.bsd:9170 Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!pacbell.com!att-out!cbnewsj!dwex From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) Subject: Re: [386BSD] Xfree86, XS3 Mouse configuration Organization: AT&T Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 00:50:08 GMT Message-ID: <1992Dec19.005008.5927@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> References: <1992Dec18.051723.26180@netcom.com> <1992Dec18.103520.4811@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <BzGynG.E3J@NeoSoft.com> Lines: 56 In article <BzGynG.E3J@NeoSoft.com> karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes: > In article <1992Dec18.103520.4811@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> > roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Thomas Roell) flamed Amancio for writing: > >>I am the author of XS3. Please send me your Xconfig and relax because > >>we fixed this bug for XFree86 and ported XFree86 to 386bsd. > > While I have the utmost respect for Roell's contributions, I am saddened > that he chose to flame Amancio like that. > As are we all. > Amancio has contributed a lot to making X go under 386BSD. I exchanged > email with him several times in the process of getting X up and he > always gave detailed responses with amazingly short turnaround times. > Can't argue with that. > And I do not believe he was trying to steal credit from anyone. In the > 386BSD world, Amancio is *the* X windows expert, at least among those > actively posting. He created the executables almost everyone uses. > He posted to offer help to a guy who was having an X problem > *on 386BSD*. And that, I believe, is what he was trying to communicate -- > that he was the guy to talk to to get the problem fixed. I find this amusing, as Rich Murphey (rich@rice.edu) is the 386BSD representative on the XFree86 Core Team. He answers most of the X queries in comp.unix.bsd that are not specific to XS3 (along with Amancio and David Dawes, in many cases). And Rich provided the XFree86 1.1 distribution for 386BSD. Please note - I'm not trying to take ANYTHING away from Amancio. It's just that Rich's contributions to XFree86, and support of 386BSD, are very large, and tend to be completely overlooked. Amancio has been concentrating on XS3, and Rich has done ALL of the XFree86 work for the last many months. So please give credit where it's due. Amancio's work is great, but so is Rich's. > > So please, a little more kindness. We are all on the same team. Amen to the former. You will, unfortunately, get far too much argument about the latter. > -- > -- Email info@NeoSoft.com for info on getting interactive Internet access. > "In a minute, I'll burp up your droid." -- David Wexelblat <dwex@mtgzfs3.att.com> (908) 957-5871 AT&T Bell Laboratories, 200 Laurel Ave - 3F-428, Middletown, NJ 07748 "The meaning of life? That's simple. Try to be happy, try not to hurt other people, and hope to fall in love." -- Mallory Keaton