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steinarb@idt.unit.no (Steinar Bang) writes:
>A lot of improvements to the MIT X code has never been merged back
>into the free MIT distribution. For two reasons, I guess:
> 1. It won't fit into the MIT code without large modifications that
>    may affect other parts of the system.
> 2. It hasn't been made available to the X consortium.
>
>The FSF way at least seems to make more changes done by other parties
>being made available to the users of freely available GNU software (me
>among others).

So?  I don't see how it matters whether a company uses X code in their
windowing system and won't give out source as opposed to writing their
own X clone from scratch and not giving out source.  In either case,
you don't get source.

However, if they use X code from MIT, perhaps they get their product out
faster, and you get more choices in whose X implementation you use.
Furthermore, you are still free to take the X code from MIT and use it,
and the X code from people who have chosen to make their source available.

--Tim Smith