Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 21, 2008, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Adam Jackson wrote:
>> 
>>>> I don't have a problem with Xorg taking any amount of time they want.
>>>> The problem is in fedora shipping a pre-release - or perhaps even more
>>>> so in their claim of knowing that the ABI is finalized before it is in
>>>> fact published as a standard.
>>> I suggest you complain to the xorg 1.5 release engineer the Fedora
>>> xorg maintainer is not coordinating with him closely. And then that
>>> you follow the advice of the xorg 1.5 release engineer on this issue.
>> 
>> You know I'm both, right?
>> 
>> - ajax

> I assume that was an attempt at humor....  But, it makes it hard to
> claim that you didn't have some inside information about when the
> interface was going to stop changing.  In another company that sort of
> thing might be called anti-competitive behavior.

People have already quoted the public statements from Xorg that the
ABI was stable, and nVidia's statements that their release cycle has
nothing to do with Xorg's release cycle.  nVidia just doesn't care.
Why do you?

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