F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

[Matthew Garrett]

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 01:26:58PM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote:

> Remember, opensource is about giving people a choice, not limiting people's
> choices.

You have many choices. The choices include:

*) Adding an xorg.conf fragment that re-enables zapping
*) Filing a bug against the server and, through rational argument, 
convincing the upstream maintainers to revert this
*) The above, but for the Fedora maintainers
*) Using a locally patched package
*) Forking the entirity of Fedora
*) Describing the use cases that require hitting ctrl+alt+backspace and 
coming up with fixes that don't involve killing the entire user session
*) Switching to Windows
*) Switching to MacOS
*) Becoming a hermit and not touching a computer ever again

And dozens more. Changing a boolean default does not limit choice. The 
only change is that you now have the choice of enabling zapping rather 
than the choice of disabling it.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org