[forum] (huge tangent away from) the removal of Packard

[G O Economou]

> [Original Message]
> From: David Wexelblat <dwex@XFree86.Org>
> To: <forum@xfree86.org>
> Date: 3/21/2003 3:05:36 PM
> Subject: RE: [forum] (huge tangent away from)  the removal of Packard
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: forum-admin@XFree86.Org 
> > [mailto:forum-admin@XFree86.Org] On Behalf Of Alan Cox
> > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 12:21 PM
> > To: forum@XFree86.Org
> > Subject: Re: [forum] the removal of Packard
> > 
> > 
> > > I don't think there's any chance of Red Hat, HP, Dell, or other 
> > > technology companies actually starting their own version of XFree86 
> > > and doing anything successful. If these companies actually employed 
> > > people to work on X and submit that work back to XFree86, 
> > > the way they do for the kernel, their favorite desktop, databases, 
> > > compilers, etc, we wouldn't be in this situation.
> > 
> > David, you have been out of touch with the project for years 
> > and I'm afraid it shows. Red Hat contributed the working 
> > Cyrix mediagx driver, four input drivers and various other 
> > bits to XFree 4.3, Red Hat is working hard with at least one 
> > major vendor unused to the open source world to get 
> > support into the next XFree. Red Hat engineers work on 
> > cleaning up DRI, getting it into the base kernels, chasing 
> > corruptions and stopping vendors from quiting XFree work 
> > because they are sick of the hassle of getting stuff into base XFree.
> > 
>
> I'll take your word for it. How much of that is Red Hat people, and how
much
> of it is Precision Insight->VA Linux->Red Hat people?


I see you are a celebrity Wex!  Quoted on CNET?  So you should know 
the community is Hewlett Packard (good pun eh?) and Redhat.  Naughty
naughty.....

Georgina