On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 16:10, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, G O Economou wrote:
> >
> > >http://www.advogato.org/person/mharris/
> > >
> > >There are allot of interesting comments here by Mike,
> > >particularly his interest in forking XFree86 and creating his
> > >own work.
> >
> > You seem to have some deep misconceptions.  The only things I've
> > mentioned on there are my decision to branch the Radeon driver
> > and to contribute stuff back to the XFree86 project.  How that is
> > seen as a fork of the entire project, I'm unsure.  I'll be the
> > first to admit that I'd be completely unable to fork the entire
> > XFree86 project on my own, and that it would be a very large
> > amount of work without any guaranteed gains in return.
> >
> 
> Actually, there is a fork of XFree already - in dri.sf.net and another one
> of ati driver only in gatos.sf.net.

I agree that the latter can be considered a fork, but the former
definitely isn't - the DRI and XFree86 repositories are regularly
synchronized.


-- 
Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast

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