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Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 06:51:30 -0400 (AST)
From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To: "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at>
cc: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Commercial X servers for FreeBSD
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On Sun, 9 Feb 1997, Hr.Ladavac wrote:

> E-mail message from Peter Mutsaers contained:
> > 
> > Which commercial X servers are available for FreeBSD?
> > 
> > I need one since XFree doesn't support my laptop with TFT and cirrus
> > logic 7543 well enough (no good centering). Also, text modes are
> > completely messed when I run the current (3.2 or 3.2A) XFree.
> > 
> > I tried the demo of Accelerated X and it runs fine. But it is way too
> > expensive ($250).
> 
> Up to recently it was $99 for personal unices (*BSD and Linux)  Since
> when did that change?
>
	And ppl wonder why commercial software developers stay away from
the Free Unix(es)?