Re: Running X-Displays of win9x
Brian Servis wrote:
>
> It can be found at http://www.microimages.com/www/html/freestuf/mix/.
> There are certanly better Xservers for Windows out there but this one
> cheap at $25. The Starnet one is really quite good but a little pricey
> at $200 for a single use license. See
> http://www.starnet.com/product.htm for more info.
>
> I just noticed that the microimages site has a table of the prices and
> links to all the other Xservers for windows at
> http://www.microimages.com/mix/prices.htm. How nice of them to provide
> a list.
>
> *- On 8 Nov, Charles Lewis wrote about "Re: Running X-Displays of win9x"
> > Do you have a URL? I personally think that this would be a good GPL project
> > as this is a great way to get users used to comfortable with running X
> > Window applications in an environment that they are used to. Then once they
> > are finding all the functionality they need with X Window application, it
> > would be easy to get them to migrate completely to Linux.
> > Plus, isn't the GNU mantra that software should be free? :)
Hmmm. I thought MIX was free, but as Brian points out,
MicroImages now wants $25 after a 15-day trial period. Perhaps
the previous version was free? At any rate, it never was free in
the GNU sense; only in the "free beer" sense.
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