On 10/3/06, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 07:47:59 +0200, Carlo Calica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Nah. XFree86 was stagnating for awhile before the fork. X > > > development exploded after the fork which is why no one (almost) uses > > > XFree86 anymore. > > > > That's not what I've read. In short I thought it was something like this: > > Xfree86 devs decided that they wanted to change the license. [...] > > To me, reading debian-legal and FSFE friends lists at the time, it > looked like a bit of both. XFree86 was losing developers for a while, > so there was talent available to X.org, and X-Oz's licence people > appeared to both talk rubbish and refuse to deal with simple concerns, > such as jurisdictions without US-style Fair Use. I don't think the fork > would have succeeded without mismanagement of both coding and licensing. >
I always had the (conspiracy theorist) view that that the license change was a poison pill to encourage a fork. In any case the success of xorg was due to more than the license. > Is this happening with Firefox? I think the licensing is being handled > badly (as far as free software goes, anyway), but I don't know about the > coding - I've seen disagreements about Google-bundling and so on, but > I'm not sure how important they are to most Firefox hackers. > > What happens to the Mozilla/Gnuzilla and Firefox/IceWeasel forks > probably depends how wisely each side of the fork manages their side and > how many developers and users are persuaded by their reasons. Other > forks have co-existed (GNU Emacs/X-Emacs, or the BSDs) for some time, > with varying degrees of happiness over time. > agreed. I'm not familiar with emacs. The BSDs have had pretty good cooperation but have diverged over time. This will be interesting. Hopefully it won't result in sites limiting IceWeasel because its not IE/Firefox. Firefox had a hard enough time getting supported, the free version may never. -- Carlo J. Calica _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
