On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 20:29:55 +0200 Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> XFree86 has created licensing issues, which is the reason why xorg was > started at all. I remember things a bit differently. X.org was started as a result of difficulties of developers to gain admittance to the inner circle of XFree86 development and the glacial time frame of patches submitted by non core develpers to make it into a release. Efforts to improve the XFree86 development situation were too little too late and the license change was a misguided effort to maintain control and pushed more people to X.org leading it to become what it is today. If it had not been for the license change I think X.org would currently be playing a more supplemental role to XFree86 rather than having developed a complete replacement. It seems to me, without a change in the attitude of XFree86 developers a fork would have happened anyway and the licensing change just accelerated the forking process. Later, Seeker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
