Re: tlug: XBF source released to XFree86

[Chris Sekiya <chris@example.com>]

On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote:

> If you want to say, only the XFree86 team will see the sources, I
> disagree, and refer to a latter paragraph in the same Slashdot article

(fast-forward to the reference))

> commercial quality drivers is available and will be included in the next
> release of the industry standard XFree86 X Server.

(and to the summary)

> So, finally everybody will have the source :-)

Define "next release".  There hasn't been any discussion about the
Neomagic driver on the xfree86 dev list (but then core doesn't always tell
us everything).  "Next release" could mean the next 3.3.x release (which I
don't think is going to happen), or it could mean the 4.0 release (which
may happen someday, but they say that the messiah will return someday
too).

Bottom line -- non-XFree86-dev-folks aren't going to see that source code
until XFree86 core decides what to do with it.

-- Chris

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