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Cygwin/XFree86 Leaving XFree86.org

An anonymous reader writes "The Cygwin/XFree86 project is leaving XFree86.org. For those that don't know, Cygwin/XFree86 is a port of the X Window System to Cygwin (which provides a *nix-like API on Windows). Here is the announcement and the start of the trouble. The XFree86 project has pushed away more developers than most projects ever have - is this the beginning of the end for XFree86?"

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  1. yo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    fuck poast

  2. Here's who XFree86 should sign up instead... by Ceren+Rocks · · Score: -1, Troll

    How can people say BSD is dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

    You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. Would you buy software from them? I don't think so! You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little minx. I mean are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?!

    With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you could have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin or a gay looking goat! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

    Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

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    Please email me any pics of Ceren you have.
  3. Cygwin... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Taste like crab... talk like people... CRAB PEOPLE... CRAB PEOPLE...

  4. Penus Torvalds can push. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I can shove back tho.

  5. In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    XFree86.org leaves YOU!!!

  6. "is this the beginning of the end for XFree86?" by kfg · · Score: 0, Troll

    No.

    KFG

  7. This is why... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...you shouldn't work with your homosexual lovers on this project. Suddenly one guy decides that he no longer wants to be a "bottom" and then one thing leads to another and the code forks.

    It's the truth behind the Linux/slashdot homosexual pound-taco-in-the-ass conspiracy.

    word!

  8. CEREN IS NOW A FAT, UGLY COW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If anyone has seen a recent picture of Ceren Ercen, then you know that's she's porked out like most geeky cybergoth girls do. She no longer has the svelte look she once did and has sold her devil costuem quite some time ago. This just goes to show you the BSD is dying. What we really need are some sexy babes who can keep their figure, cook and clean , and keep their nose out of our business when us guys are up to something important.

  9. Fuck off and die by siskbc · · Score: -1, Troll

    Goddamn metrosexuals, taking over the world with your fashion sense and good hygiene.

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    -Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat

  10. You think that's bad... by gregarican · · Score: 0, Troll

    I tell you, *BSD is really dying. Soon they will join forces with a networking company to pull each other down into the tarpits too. I can see it down *BSD and Banyan. Building a better tomorrow...today.

  11. Re:Great, Xfree86 needs this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Xouvert? Neh, neh. In the USA we call french fries freedom fries, and gues what we call Xouvert? XFREE.

  12. Maybe the real motivation is license zealotry. by Brett+Glass · · Score: 1, Troll
    The Sourceforge page for the forked project says, right up front, that the licensing is the "GNU General Public License (GPL)" (first!) followed by the "MIT License" (last), even though all of XFree86 is licensed under the MIT license.

    It is well known that Cygnus (whose name was chosen because it has "GNU" in the middle) eats, lives, sleeps and breathes the GPL. Is this the real reason they forked the project? It's interesting: The GPL "faithful" claim that forking is a bad thing and that their license prevents it (a claim which has never been demonstrated to be true), yet they certainly seem to have no compunctions about forking a project to bring it under the GPL!