X is dead

2000-12-05 Thread Robert Marlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi People I've been having problems with X 4.0 in woody but I'm unsure what's causing it (so I'm unable to track it to a specific package and file a bug report). The problem is when X is started (usually I use gdm but the problem also occurs when usi

Re: x is dead - non-free

1998-04-05 Thread john
George Bonser writes: > I am not against commercial software, I am against crappy commercial > software. If R6.4 is good and if it can be obtained for a few bucks, I > would use it. Heck, I am almost tempted to fork out the $7500 and offer > binary packages. I'm sure that Xi & friends will be offe

Re: x is dead - non-free

1998-04-04 Thread john
I wrote: > It is the *next* release of X that will be non-free. The present release > will remain free and remain available, and XFree86 will continue to > maintain and support it. George Bonser writes: > Stop! Stop what? > XFree will ALWAYS be free. Yes, of course it will. 'X', however, refe

Re: x is dead - non-free

1998-04-04 Thread Gary Kline
The news about X11 is among the more disturbing items I've heard in this realm--the unix-paradigm world. An X-guru coworker mentioned this possibility to me a few months ago but I never thought that corporate greed would sink to this depth.

Re: x is dead - non-free

1998-04-04 Thread john
> I am facing a real dilemma with Distribution disks. If X becomes non-free, > there will be no point buying a Debian distribution CD if I am correct > I mean, if X isn't on there, I'll have to dnld everything anyway, or buy Red > Hat It is the *next* release of X that will be non-free. The pre

Re: x is dead - non-free

1998-04-04 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
"Tristan Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After loads of problems with LSL ( after 2 weeks they wrote back to me > saying my credit card was out of date because 1/10/98 in England means 1st > October and over in America it's 10th Jan, and I wrote back correcting them > but they said that I have

Re: x is dead - non-free

1998-04-04 Thread Tristan Day
After loads of problems with LSL ( after 2 weeks they wrote back to me saying my credit card was out of date because 1/10/98 in England means 1st October and over in America it's 10th Jan, and I wrote back correcting them but they said that I have to use another card) I am facing a real dilemma wi

Re: X is dead.

1998-04-02 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Apr 02, 1998 at 01:49:54AM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > X has become non-free software > (http://www.camb.opengroup.org/tech/desktop/x/xlicensefaq.htm) and because > of that unuseable for the Linux community. > And now? The rumors of X's death have been greatly exaggerated. What w