On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 05:22, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Thursday 07 October 2004 02:21, John Andersen wrote:
But with all due respect Anthony, that tells me nothing! Sounds like a marketing droid.
Much more Satisfactorily???!!! Like HOW? What was wrong with Xfree that you don't see in Xorg?
The specifics are that the XFree organization came up with some nonsense license scheme that no one could stomach. So many of the Xfree developers split off to form the X.org group to keep things going.
That's the reason. I'm sure google will tell you more.
X.org is testament to the Open Source way of doing things, one cannot be tied down, blackmailed or hijacked by a single vendor/entity. Change your license and become arrogant and not change it to something people like then expect to be left holding a stagnant branch... Just an opinion, but it looks to me that X.org will innovate more than Xfree has... Not sure if I will get 9.2 though. no sure how well x.org runs with Nvidia driver... Matt