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XFree86 Politics
Pivot writes "Keith Packard wants to fork the XFree86 effort. 'It has been brought to the attention of the XFree86 Core Team that one of its members, Keith Packard, has been actively (but privately) seeking out support for a fork of XFree86 that would be led by himself. He is also in the process of forming a by-invitation-only group of vested interests to discuss privately concerns he has about XFree86 and the future of X. He has consistently refused to even disclose these concerns within the context of the XFree86 Core Team, which makes his membership of that team unviable. As a consequence, Keith Packard is no longer a member of the XFree86 Core Team.' The XFree86 team is trying to become more open, to combat the fork. Keith is a capable developer, having worked on FontConfig, Xft, the X render extension etc. Meanwhile, All is not good in how XFree86 drivers are being developed. Anyone remember the GGI initiative a few years back, and the uproar it caused?"
When you signed up to work for our organization, we made a contract. That contract states that you are not allowed to work on any other external project without our permission.
Not only have you decided to form a competetive product, but you're also trying to steal our people away. We can't have this nonsense at our company.
This organization has to protect it's financial interests. We can't have competition from within. We don't want you to take anything away from our premere product.
You're fired. You'll hear from our lawyers in regards to the anti-compete clause that you agreed to.
That being said, forks are dangerous...
Agreed. Perhaps they should look at a spork of some kind?
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Keith Packard never worked on XFree86. The never was a Keith. Photos currently being retouched. :-)
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Never mind XFree86, I could use a good fork...
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What _are_ you people on about. I've got ACPI and firewire and ALSA sound running prefectly OK on my sony vaio r505 unit. Currently I;m running kernel 2.4.21-pre5-ac6 with ALSA and ACPI patches on a base SuSE distro. And as of CVS XFree 4.2.99.x I get hardware accellerated 3D glx gfx too.
So what's all the fuss about?
Simply browse the list archives, read the README's and get compiling already. Or are you one of those HORRIBLE newbies that ask first, read later and never think for themselves?
Remember boys and girls: Unix wasn;t invented so that clueless people would have an option over M$ Windows or some other OS-du-jour, it was invented so that smart, cluefull people could get their jobs done and have some fun hacking their boxen at the same time.
Me: Installs 3 series drivers
Me: marvels at sudden increase in 2D performance
Anyway, as I was saying, XFree86 is an excellent implementation and I won't hear a word said against it.
Me: attempts to mod own comment down
Nice to meet you Mr. Keith.
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