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The XFree86 Fork() Saga Continues
Mortimer.CA writes "An article up on OSNews about the XFree story
mentioned earlier. Included is: replacing fontconfig with Sun's stsf; XFree86 co-founder David Wexelblat saying that XFree is today obsolete and should be changed; Keith Packard replying, and more."
The problem is that you have no authority. There is a large difference between white trailer trash rednecks saying "i hatez the damn gubberment" and a reasoned treatise by a political spokesman. Similarly there is a huge difference between you saying "X sucks!" and somebody like Keith stating specific grievances.
I think the appropriate quote is "Even fools are right sometimes, but only a fool would listen to them".
Whoa. Haven't seen that one before.
Sorry, i was busy fucking your mom up the ass while writing my last reply.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're the terror of the 7th grade playground, I can totally tell. "Fucking my mom up the ass." I bet you pack 'em in every night at the Apollo. You're a regular Stagger Lee, boy! Let me know when your album comes out!
1) fact is that you want a complete from bottom to top desktop environment.
2) now that xfree adopted a lot of gnome shit with 4.3.0 i was assuming you were refering to gnome here as complete desktop from bottom to top.
3) that made me reply the way i did.
Maybe that sounded impressive (or at least coherant) in whatever your native language is?
I repeat: "Allow?" Nobody "allows" anybody to do anything with the X11 codebase. It's free. Allow me to demonstrate by example:
If the syphlitic chimpanzees you optimistically refer to as your parents decide that they want to fork XFree86, they don't have to check with you.
If the doctor who abandoned his responsibility to the human race by not strangling you at birth decides that he wants to merge XFree86 into the QNX kernel, you don't get to vet the decision.
If the makers of the hand cream that is your only sexual partner decide that they want to include a free CD of XF86 with every bottle of their lotion, they won't consult you.
If the crabs that infest your rancid pubic hair develop a group intelligence and decide to replace all of XF86's linked-list functions with wrapper calls to GLIB2, people will mostly feel sorry for the crabs for having had to grow up in such a bad neighborhood, and applaud their initiative.
And last but not least: if a group of people who actually produce working code instead of spending their time posting gibberish flames in broken english to slashdot decide to do anything whatsoever, nobody is going to give a rat's ass whether you think it should be "allowed" or not.
There are two morals to this story, child:
1. Don't complain about code that nobody is forcing you to use when there are plenty of alternatives available.
2. Don't try to play the dozens against strangers when your game is that weak. Come hard, or don't come at all.
News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters? Like hell.
The problem is that you have no authority.
Whoa. Haven't seen that one before.
First time in a forum discussing X? Personally, I think we all need to remember who put the X in sex.
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Yeah, who uses a graphics system to play games, except, uh, the _overwhelming majority_ of computer users.
Mod me flamebait, but people who are willing to wear hand cuffs for the sake of entertainment deserve neither freedom nor respect.
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You've just described exactly what's wrong with X's fonts. "Read the Font Deuglification HOWTO"... why the hell should you even need a HOWTO just to make the fonts look right? And even if you do use the same TT fonts, they are rendered horribly. On Windows, I just put the fonts in c:\windows\fonts, and they're instantly accessible, well-rendered and anti-aliased, everywhere. No messing with source code, no patches, no obscure configurations, it just works.
X is seriously fucked up, it either needs completely overhauling, or replacing.
Mod me flamebait, why the fuck is that flamebait? I guess slashdot mods don't know that Kiss put the X in sex, eh?
Heh, well, the mods who modded me flamebait can just refer to my username. :)
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