Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2271 mails)

["Berge, Harry ten" <berge@xxxxxxx>]

> On Thursday 08 April 2004 11:14, Vince Negri wrote:
> > More generally, as I understand it Mandrake, Gentoo, Debian
> > (and thus almost certainly all debian-based distros like Lindows)
> > have all abandoned XFree86 (and are thus X.org bound) Not sure
> > about Red Hat, but I would hardly be surprised if they also go
> > to X.org. So the long-term health of XFree86 is in question
> > unless they can come up with a new technology that offers a 
> compelling
> > reason for vendors to use XFree instead of X.org.
> 
> Yes, or unless they see the error of their ways and change 
> the licence back.  
> The OpenBSD people had a good go at them, but it's not too 
> late to address 
> your polite but forceful mails to the XFree86 project to try 
> to get them to 
> remember the free part.  The whole fork situation is a pity.
> 

Hmmm... Do you really think? The XFree86 project had some issues in the past
(remember the issue with Keith Packard), and the X.org implementation (Keith
is involved :-) is going to implement some of the nice things Keith has
built. So personally I'm optimistic about this new 'X' chapter.

Regards Harry