If you wondered why Intel sucks on Fedora read this

[Rodd Clarkson]

On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 18:41 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 13:19 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> 
> 
> > John,
> > 
> > A little tongue in cheek on who keithp is?
> > 
> > See maybe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Packard ;-]
> 
> No. I'd never heard of him. He dabbles in different stuff, there's no 
> reason I would.
> 
> That aside, the point stands. If Keith is speaking for Intel, and in 
> talking about the subject he is he might well be, then he should be 
> doing so from a site clearly owned by Intel. Doing so establishes 
> credibility.
> 
> Even knowing he works for Intel (according to his site), one can't tell 
> whether his plans are Intel's plans.
> 
> I'm not picking on Keith in particular, there's any number of RH and 
> Fedora project people who do the same.
> 
> If you're part of a well-known team, and you want your own website that 
> reflects the work you do as part of that team, make sure your choice of 
> domain name (maybe keithp.developer.intel.com or 
> keithp.people.freedesktop.org). Intel might prefer to use another domain 
> name entirely - intelgraphics.org - that's fine too. It carries the 
> company logo, the regular Intel site links to it.
> 
> The site looks legitimate, but it could be a well-crafted hoax.

Actually, while I get what you say, it would probably be more
appropriate for keithp to be using keith.p.x11.org or something like
this.  Keith has been a part of developing X for so long that while his
involvement with Intel (as his employer) is good for me (with X related
issues with my intel chipset), Keith has been involved a lot longer with
the development of X (since March 1988) than his involvement with intel
(a couple of years).  Ginen that X11 started development in May 1986 and
was released in Sep 1987, it reasonable to assume that Keiths ongoing
involvement with X is considerable.

I've never met Keith (and neither am I likely to) but as someone who has
been using Linux since 1996, his name is one I know well, and while less
vocal than some others, his work has contributed vastly to the desktop
you use today.  So it might even be fair to suggest that KeithP has the
right to stand up on his own and represent himself in these matters.
It's worth having a read of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System
to appreciate why KeithP might not need to represent some other entity.

Also, it doesn't take too much searching to figure out that his website
is not a hoax, including that his Listing in Wikipedia lists his website
as where it appears to be.

Oh, and it's clarkson.id.au ;-]


R.