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- From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: Defective HP X Windows Distribution
- Message-ID: <3597@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 16:25:46 GMT
- References: <3586@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <weh8GFC00UzxQ1DtEz@andrew.cmu.edu> <JINX.92Sep14113712@chamarti.ai.mit.edu>
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- |[FREE HINT to HP: You are really annoying your customers and developing
- |a horrid reputation with customers for not including ALL of the
- |freely distributable X11 libraries, headers, and build utilities
- |-- like Imake. I tell everyone I see about my experience with HP. ]
-
- % Amen to this!
-
- >As long as all that stuff is available on the net, why should I care?
- >In fact, I don't try to rebuild the latest X everytime someone sneezes
- >on the sources.
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- Most customers spend money on an operating system to save the time
- and man hours of building/installing it themselves. Since HP doesn't
- include most of X11 as part of its HPUX distribution, most HP
- customers are unhappy with their HP X11 distribution. Many customers
- do not have ANY access to the net. Most customers have no desire to
- get and build MIT X11 -- they'd rather receive it as a regular part of
- their purchased OS and spend their own time creating new products,
- doing their favorite research, or whatever they are getting paid to
- do.
-
- I can see that folks at MIT (where X was invented) might be happier
- getting it locally and building it themselves.
-