On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Robert G. Scofield wrote: > I don't understand the big picture. How can the XFree project get away with > upsetting so many people? If Red Hat, Debian, Mandrake, SuSe, OpenBSD, etc. > get upset and start looking for alternatives, where does that leave the XFree > project? Why is it not the case the XFree project needs to depend on making > everyone happy?
Hence the reason everyone is so upset. > Also, it seems like SuSE (Novell) and its friend IBM, and GNOME's friends like > Sun and HP have a whole lot of resources. Can't they come up with a an > alternative? 1. There are too many X-based programs to simply "switch over" to another GUI platform. 2. Even giants like IBM, Sun, and HP take time to create something new. 3. There *are* alternatives already, like Freedesktop.org, but it'll take time to take root to become the next standard. I expect the XFree86 group to change their new license again to something more palatable within a few months. If not, I expect another XFree86-compatible project (Freedesktop.org, most likely) to take over its place. But I'd think the former is more likely to happen than the latter. -Mark -- Mark K. Kim AIM: markus kimius Homepage: http://www.cbreak.org/ Xanga: http://www.xanga.com/vindaci Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/user.jsp?id=13046 PGP key fingerprint: 7324 BACA 53AD E504 A76E 5167 6822 94F0 F298 5DCE PGP key available on the homepage _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
