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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: I agree with Alan Cox for various reasons - this is good

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sat, 2003-03-22 14:00.

Dual trees is not always a good thing. Look at wine. The original tree at winehq is doing fine, but the ReWind tree is getting support from some developers, and those patches don't see winehq. And then there's transgaming who doesn't release any source code back to the original wine tree, but only to rewind. what you end up having are three separate pieces of software w/ varying levels of support for things but they're all suppose to do the same job. It's very awkward for a user to deal with that.

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