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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: What fork?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sat, 2003-03-22 20:09.

I have read through a fair amount of the mailing list stuff around this (pipermail on xfree86.org needs some fscking cleaning up, I must say), and have seen no evidence of Keith wanting to fork.

Sometimes you can read all that mail and still completely miss the point -- because the point is that he *never* mailed to any list about his plans.

He was pinging people in private to join his project. He did not even inform the XFree86 BOD. *That* is officially the reason why they kicked him out.

But in the end, of course, it's all political BS. Just give me something that looks as nice as GNOME 2.2, I don't what X it runs on, if at all.

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