Re: Re: [XFree86] Call for Beta Testers - SciTech SNAP Graphics for Linux!

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 03:52:52PM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote:
> Alan Hourihane <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I know your trying to get help with your software. But blatently
> > advertising it on the XFree86 support lists seems to me as going
> > just a little too far. I doubt many would like it, if XiG decided
> > to do the same thing.
> 
> Oookkk. Considering the fact that our product is based on XFree86 and 
> this is the *only* XFree86 user mailing list that I am aware of, how else 
> are we supposed to recruit XFree86 beta testers to test our product? 
> Obviously I won't be posting here again 'blatently advertising my 
> product' to keep you happy.
> 
> However bear in mind it is this kind of negative attitude from the 
> XFree86 Core Team that makes commercial developers actively using and 
> contributing to XFree86 think twice about doing so. Given all the 
> discussions on the forum list about killing X.org and switching over to 
> only a single maintained version of XFree86, this type of response is 
> likely to cement in peoples minds the fact that X.org and XFree86 
> *should* remain separate, and maintain separate trees. 
> 
> AFAIK XFree86 has and always will be open to proprietry developers using 
> and contributing to the code. If XFree86 has plans to act like a GPL 
> project, we might as well take our technology elsewhere.

Hey, my point being if people switch to your binary drivers and people end
up doing more testing for them - how on earth are we going to get open
source drivers written and tested here ? We already have limited resources,
in people testing and writing code and this would only reduce them furthur.

Anyway, I thought you had a QA team ?

Oh, And I wasn't speaking for the Core Team either, this is my personal opinion.

Alan.