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=== Early history and naming === The project began in 1992 when David Wexelblat, Glenn Lai, [[David Dawes]] and Jim Tsillas joined forces addressing bugs in the source code of the [[X386]] X display server (written by [[Thomas Roell]]), as contributed to X11R5. This version was initially called '''X386 1.2E'''. As newer versions of the (originally freeware) X386 were being sold under a [[proprietary software]] license by SGCS (of which Roell was a partner), confusion existed between the projects. After discussion, the project was renamed X''Free''86, as a [[pun]] (compare X-three-eighty-six to X-free-eighty-six). Roell has continued to sell proprietary X servers, most recently under the name ''[[Accelerated-X]]''.
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