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- From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat)
- Subject: Re: [386BSD] Xfree86, XS3 Mouse configuration
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 00:50:08 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.005008.5927@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Dec18.051723.26180@netcom.com> <1992Dec18.103520.4811@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <BzGynG.E3J@NeoSoft.com>
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- In article <BzGynG.E3J@NeoSoft.com> karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec18.103520.4811@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
- > roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Thomas Roell) flamed Amancio for writing:
- > >>I am the author of XS3. Please send me your Xconfig and relax because
- > >>we fixed this bug for XFree86 and ported XFree86 to 386bsd.
- >
- > While I have the utmost respect for Roell's contributions, I am saddened
- > that he chose to flame Amancio like that.
- >
-
- As are we all.
-
- > Amancio has contributed a lot to making X go under 386BSD. I exchanged
- > email with him several times in the process of getting X up and he
- > always gave detailed responses with amazingly short turnaround times.
- >
-
- Can't argue with that.
-
- > And I do not believe he was trying to steal credit from anyone. In the
- > 386BSD world, Amancio is *the* X windows expert, at least among those
- > actively posting. He created the executables almost everyone uses.
- > He posted to offer help to a guy who was having an X problem
- > *on 386BSD*. And that, I believe, is what he was trying to communicate --
- > that he was the guy to talk to to get the problem fixed.
-
- I find this amusing, as Rich Murphey (rich@rice.edu) is the 386BSD
- representative on the XFree86 Core Team. He answers most of the X queries
- in comp.unix.bsd that are not specific to XS3 (along with Amancio and
- David Dawes, in many cases). And Rich provided the XFree86 1.1 distribution
- for 386BSD.
-
- Please note - I'm not trying to take ANYTHING away from Amancio. It's
- just that Rich's contributions to XFree86, and support of 386BSD, are
- very large, and tend to be completely overlooked. Amancio has been
- concentrating on XS3, and Rich has done ALL of the XFree86 work for the
- last many months. So please give credit where it's due. Amancio's
- work is great, but so is Rich's.
-
- >
- > So please, a little more kindness. We are all on the same team.
-
- Amen to the former. You will, unfortunately, get far too much argument
- about the latter.
-
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