Re: the removal of Packard

> [Original Message]
> From: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Date: 3/21/2003 12:25:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [forum] the removal of Packard
>
> > I don't think there's any chance of Red Hat, HP, Dell, or other
technology
> > companies actually starting their own version of XFree86 and doing
anything
> > successful. If these companies actually employed people to work on X and
> > submit that work back to XFree86, the way they do for the kernel, their
> > favorite desktop, databases, compilers, etc, we wouldn't be in this
> > situation.
>
> David, you have been out of touch with the project for years and I'm
afraid
> it shows. Red Hat contributed the working Cyrix mediagx driver, four
> input drivers and various other bits to XFree86 4.3, Red Hat is working
> hard with at least one major vendor unused to the open source world to
get 
> support into the next XFree86. Red Hat engineers work on cleaning up DRI,
> getting it into the base kernels, chasing corruptions and stopping vendors
> from quiting XFree86 work because they are sick of the hassle of getting
> stuff into base XFree86.

According to the DRI site, Tungsten Graphics, for which the flunkie Frank
spoke
yesterday does that.  Now Redhat does it.  Seems everyone does it.

Georgina