Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: X server problem since 2.4.0-test5-pre1/2 / Fixed!!! | From | Mark Gray <> | Date | 01 Aug 2000 10:26:34 -0400 |
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James Simmons <jsimmons@acsu.buffalo.edu> writes: [snip] >> What I did when I was writing my own X server was extract >> all the files I needed from their tree and put them into my own >> sensible directory structure, removed all their macros, fixed their >> include file structure, prototyped everything and rewrote it so it >> would compile without warnings using -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -- >> (took me four months, by which time they had released three newer >> versions :-) > > Really:-) Someday I like to see a new open source X server group form.
For me the "openness" is going to rest on whether the DMCA is ruled constitutional or not -- I made the shortsighted mistake of buying two NVidia cards and, as far as I can tell, reverse engineering them is going to be illegal if the law stands.
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