On Thursday 08 April 2004 14:34, Berge, Harry ten wrote:
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.
Well - you could easily be right, and since spring is gradually coming to my lurking places in the wet northern hills let's take a more optimistic view. Perhaps X.org will bring out more innovators with good ideas on free licensing - Cheers Fergus
Regards Harry
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