Ethics Violation in XFree86

1999-04-05 Thread Jesse Gilman
I am a Debian user. Doesn't Debian have an ethics policy? What about software, even free software, whose technical documentation plainly and bluntly lies about its capabilities? I refer to XFree86's pervasively well-documented feature of supporting multiheaded (multiple monitored) systems. I

Re: Ethics Violation in XFree86

1999-04-05 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 05 Apr 1998 23:29:53 -0400, Jesse Gilman wrote: What about software, even free software, whose technical documentation plainly and bluntly lies about its capabilities? I refer to XFree86's pervasively well-documented feature of supporting

Re: Ethics Violation in XFree86

1999-04-05 Thread Branden Robinson
I need not add much to what Steve Lamb said on this subject, but it sounds to me like you have confused XFree86 with the Open Group, and specifically the latter's release of X11R6.4, which supports the XINERAMA extension for multi-head support. XFree86 4.0 will be based on X11R6.4. They might

Re: Ethics Violation in XFree86 (also: What do YOU lose with Linux)

1999-04-05 Thread Jerzy Kakol
-Original Message- From: Jesse Gilman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, April 04, 1999 10:34 PM Subject: Ethics Violation in XFree86 lies about its capabilities? I refer to XFree86's pervasively well-documented feature