here is my opinion /as a random cat living in the wires of the internet/:

xlibre has a long history of toxicity, harassment by the fan base, and project 
manager and other right wing pundits using it as a proxy in culture war and/or 
scoring political points

it is not a software project, it is a pr campaign

campaign in which debian should not participate in, and ideology of which goes 
against everything debian stands for, and endangers wellbeing of debian 
developers and users, especially marginalised one and their allies

xlibre has deb repository /it is extremely easy to look it up/ - and that 
should be the end of story - debian did not ban or exclude xlibre from 
operating system - anyone can use it, if they wish to

the technical side of things does not matter here - good software is not just 
good code - it is also an ecosystem(?) of diverse community and non toxic 
environment - soft skills if you wish - and however good code is - it is worth 
nothing if it is fueled by hatred campaign - making maintenance detrimental to 
wellbeing of other people, where toxic fan base and right wing pundits 
monitoring any wrong word that is said about project

and as someone who wants to still use xserver on my machine - this isn't it, 
chief - this is how all chances on getting x to life another day are going to 
die: 'cause desires and efforts of trying to improve x somewhat will be met 
with association with extreme bigotry and hate campaigns /and incompetence/

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begrudgingly, #random #left #nb
using debian and/or derivatives since i was teenager in 2010

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