XFree86 gone from Fedora Core? WHY!?

William M. Quarles walrus at bellsouth.net
Mon May 24 23:15:28 UTC 2004


Prasanth Kumar wrote:
> I don't think Red Hat are the only developers switching to X.org. For
> one thing Debian is also. Furthermore key people like Jim Gettys and
> Keith Packard are associated with X.org. These guys have been working on
> X related stuff well before XFree86 even existed.
> 

Red Hat is not a "developer," it's a distributor: someone who repackages 
and markets somebody elses product.

And so far, that's all X.org has done, too, with XFree86's code.

As I've already said on this thread, those vendors/distributors are 
switching to X.org because it is an organization that is vendor-oriented 
and sponsored by the hardware and software manufacturers, whereas 
XFree86 is an independent community of volunteers. 
<http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14511>

You might want to check out this thread on XFree86 in regards to the 
other developers at X.org.  He basically sees it as the corporations 
lining the developer's pockets to push X.org this way or that.  I'm glad 
that I could find some balance on this issue.
<http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xfree86-forum&m=108542018030529&w=2>

The thread started with this message, which I thought made a pretty 
interesting point about fixing the license (basically saying to take it 
back to the modified BSD license, because any XFree86 additions to it 
are essentially redundant):
<http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xfree86-forum&m=108183150511654&w=2>

Peace,
William





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