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- From: roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Thomas Roell)
- Subject: Re: [386BSD] Xfree86, XS3 Mouse configuration
- In-Reply-To: hasty@netcom.com's message of Sat, 19 Dec 1992 17:29:46 GMT
- References: <BzGynG.E3J@NeoSoft.com> <1992Dec19.005008.5927@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
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- <1992Dec19.172946.10021@netcom.com>
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- Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, Technische Univ. Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 18:56:17 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.185617.22769@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- >> - He talk on the net as if he was the only one doing XS3 alone
- >> - The S3's graphics eingine differes only in one register from
- >> a 8514/A
- >>
- >>What he answered was:
- >>
- >> - The README contains other names
- >thomas forgot to mention that I cut and past my second statement on the
- >README file stating clearly that XS3 was based on Kevin Martin's server.
-
- Isn't that exactly what I stated one line above ? But that wasn't an
- answer to the question I raised ... See, if somebody asks for the
- whether, you would answer 5:00pm, would you ?
-
- >For instance, "Are you so dumb that", in reference to something he has
- >no clue of what is going on.
-
- Unless I haven't kept exact records of outgoing e-mail, I never wrote
- that very sentence in this upper form. And if so, please cite from the
- context so people can judge by themselfs. And if I have 'no clue of
- what is going on', why aren't you so kind to enlighten my state of
- disinformation.
-
- >His intentions with respect to me are malicious.
-
- Not really. It's just that in the last time you really penetrate the newsgoups
- with answers to questions nobody has asked, and try to promote yourself
- in a way that's a shame for the other people who did the work you started
- with building XS3 onto. Technical discussions have been always imossible with
- you and if ever happended, then the flow of information was more towards you
- than the other way round. Well, you did a great work on XS3 for the
- BSD/Linux community. But does give you the status of beeing sacrosanct ?
-
- I know all this discussion should have happened in personal communication,
- but I felt that it would be a desirable step to it in a open letter, rather
- than a nonpublic thing, to bring back those people into the light who
- also did a major part on a free X-server for the Intel-Platform.
-
- But as 'commericial ass-holes like you' (guess how said this ;-)) I think
- it's better to stop this here. What had to be said has been said, and I
- honestly hope that it had the effect people who ask a specific question
- about X will get their answer and not just the lastest self-portrayal of
- a person will all know.
-
- - Thomas
-
- --
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- Das Reh springt hoch, e-mail: roell@sgcs.com
- das Reh springt weit, #include <sys/pizza.h>
- was soll es tun, es hat ja Zeit ...
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