On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 07:56:52PM +0200, Sebastian Gomez wrote: >I'm using XFree86 with Debian in a iBook computer, and also in a iMac >running Mac OS X and I think the project name is absolutely incoherent. >I don't understand why the name XFree86 refers to an specific piece of >hardware. > >"The primary goal of the XFree86 Project is to produce XFree86?and to >make it the best freely-redistributable Open Source implementation of >the X Window System by implementing it on as many >>hardware<< and >software platforms as possible" > >Launching X11 it's like putting a sticker of "I love intel" on my PPC >computers. It's very easy to think another name less computer specific >like "XFree", "XFreePC" (yes, mac's are also personal computer's) or >something else. I think you are looking at it all wrong. "XFree86" is the trademarked name of the software we produce, and we've been using it for just over eleven years (since September 1992). We don't plan on changing our well-known and well-established name. Besides, what's wrong with acknowledging the Project's roots on a hardware platform that was considered at the time by most in the traditional X world to be irrelevant? Did you also know that XFree86 started on out on UNIX SYSV (SVR4 and SVR3) platforms, followed by 386BSD, Mach386, and then Linux, (and shortly after by Minix, Amoeba, SCO, OSF/1)? >Congratulations on your great job and I hope you can solve this problem >;P Thanks, but we don't see it as a problem. David -- David Dawes Founder/committer/developer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
