On Friday 21 March 2003 12:01 am, Jan Ciger wrote: > It is a free software, but having ten > incompatible versions of XFree or ten versions with ten different fatal > bugs is not a nice outlook
XFree86 and XFreer86? As I understand it, the pace (or lack of it) of incorporation of existing patches is the main problem, so a fork would be less likely to contain said fatal bugs, and a mroe responsive X server would result in NVidia submiting more bugs in the first place. Also, `ten forks' is not a fair representation. All that's been discussed AFAICT is a single fork. Maybe XFork? XCutlery (forked, and sharper than before? :-) If they do fork, I most fervently hope that the fork has a different name, (even if it is only `XLibre' or something like that) to avoid confusion. Dropping the `86' would be good for both original and any fork, since it runs on a lot more than x86 architecture and has done for a very long time. Cheers; Leon
