Re: Re: [XFree86] Call for Beta Testers - SciTech SNAP Graphics for Linux!
Alan Hourihane <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:58:32AM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: > Alan Hourihane <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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? > > Recall about three years ago that SciTech made an offer to the XFree86 > group that if there was interest in switching to our device driver model, > that we would donate our code to XFree86. That offer was turned down, so > we continued down our current path. Sorry, I don't recall that ever happening. But then if it was 3 years ago, it was definately long long ago. Alan.