Re: the removal of Packard

G O Economou wrote:
>>[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
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> 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.

Shouldn't you be in school?

Keith