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- From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: X Windows on 9000/710
- Message-ID: <3602@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 23:30:47 GMT
- References: <1992Sep10.155645.20627@hamblin.math.byu.edu> <17780237@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM>
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- In article <17780237@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM> chan@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM (Chan Benson) writes:
-
- >I don't want to get into a shouting match about what should or shouldn't
- >be distributed. However, it should be no surprise to developers that
- >this stuff isn't there. Here's a quote from the Xmu README file:
-
- Yo !
-
- Xmu isn't the only piece missing, nor is it the most important
- piece. The quoted blurb from the Xmu readme file doesn't explain why
- so many different pieces are missing. Many other things (like Athena
- widgets, Imake, and so forth) are also missing from the HP
- distribution. The bottom line is that IBM, DEC, Sun, and other
- vendors ALL supply these sundry pieces and parts. When HP is the only
- or nearly the only vendor supplying a highly stripped version of X11
- (as is the case now), then HP shouldn't be surprised that customers
- are both very unhappy and very vocal about it.
-
- If HP cared about its customers and wanted to keep customers into
- the future, it would change things with HPUX 9.0 so that ALL of the
- freely distributable parts of the MIT X11 tape are supplied in working
- form. The X11 software in question is _freely distributable_ so it
- isn't like HP would have to pay a license fee or something. The earlier
- suggestion of making the missing pieces a separate install option on
- the DAT tape seems reasonable -- the name for that install item could
- be UNSUPPORTED or something else that would appease the HP corporate
- lawyers-gone-wild.
-
- Ran
- atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil
-