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XFree86 Politics & Keith Packard

Submitted by sbutle on Fri, 2003-03-21 06:45. FreeDesktop.org
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PCLinuxOnline is reporting that Keith Parkard wants to fork the XFree86 effort and has subsequently been removed from the XFree86 core team. The issue in general. and if GNOME should send out a statement supporting Keith, is currently being discussed by various GNOME community members on the GNOME Foundation mailing list. The issue is also being discussed on slashdot.

Re: XFree86 Politics & Keith Packard

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2003-03-21 09:06.

"could leave GNOME and KDE in the difficult position of needing to support both branches."

How is this different from having to support several different X-implementations as it currently stands? The Solaris X-server and the commercial X-servers are all supported AFAICS.

I agree that XFree86 has been pushing development, and thus set the standard about what was possible or not, but they haven't really been very cooperative.

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