On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 07:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As far as documentation when you started learning X 10 years ago, this is > what I have to say: > > 1) only 10 years ago? I thought you found XFree86, but what about before? > X11 was already out there, no ? No matter... > > 2) How many X-related man pages are there? Include XFree86's, the > original MIT pages, Sun's SGI's etc etc etc. Tons I have seen. > > 3) How many X-related books have you seen on bookselves? Plenty, right? > Seen any DRI ? None!
I suggest you read up a bit about the history of the X Windowing System before making such broad statements about it. > As for sympathy for whiners: as you are so blind in your own hubris I will > clarify it for you: today's newbies (me, others), are YOUR future. We > are the ones that will carry your project if you get hit by a bus. Do > you care enough about your projects? Then think about us "whiners" who > actually want to help, because we BELIEVE in your cause! Remember, > there's always the Dark Side, and we didn't align with it yet. While I strongly disagree with your perception of David Dawes (I consider him very competent and deserving a lot of respect for the hard work he does for XFree86), this is just plain ridiculous and disgusting. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
