On Sun, 7 Dec 2025 at 17:46, b b <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you for your sensibleness Kevin. > The free software world is being subverted by the day.
How is it being subverted? It's an interesting word to use. > The XLibre scandal demonstrated people who infiltrated in position of power > have a clear agenda they are pushing, they're interested more in politics > than providing good software and supporting users. > It seems only minor projects are left untouched by this insanity, until > people will turn to them en masse, and then the subversion cycle repeats. What insanity? I mean wayland isn't perfect, but then nor is Xorg, the former is considerably more secure though. Ultimately people and companies choose what platforms they use and where they wish to invest their time and resources to develop the software they wish to use and the industry as a whole has moved towards different technologies over time. The nice thing with open source software is that it can be forked if you don't like whats going on, and this is what is happening. The dropping of old platforms generally happen because people aren't maintaining them and hence they start to rot. The choice tends to be one of 3, someone stepping up to maintain it, someone forking it to maintain it or it being dropped because no-one care. It seems open source is working as intended, no subversion involved. There's been a lot of features, packages and even architectures and hardware over the years that have come and gone in Fedora, people complain, sometimes people come along and pick things some and continue to maintain it, sometimes those things continue, sometimes only for an initial burst sometimes for a long time. But it's not subversion, whether in Fedora or upstream, you can't force people to work on and support the things you want if they don't wish. If you want it you need to put in the effort if no one else wants to, it's not subversion if others don't wish to maintain the things you want them to. > I really hope you'll manage to do something good. > Please get in touch with the XLibre team or those you deem more fit so you > can receive proper support. > > RedHat is one of the main drivers behind this overthrowing and they > disrespected you badly. I mean RH isn't perfect by any means, but if they don't wish to maintain something it's not disrespect, it's their choice, those that want the thing should be the ones doing the work. -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
