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X.org and XFree86 Reform

Posted by michael on Friday January 23, 2004 @02:01AM from the shifting-sands dept.

albepetr writes "NewsForge is reporting about a press conference held today at LinuxWorld 2004 in New York, where some members of the X Consortium, XFree86, and freedesktop.org announced that X.org and XFree86 have merged. They claim that the reformed group will be working together to bring "not just more eye candy but new functionality" to the X Window Manager for Linux and Unix." Newsforge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN. Update: 01/23 18:06 GMT by M : XFree86.org denies the story. I think a more accurate description of the event might be something like, "XFree86 core developers leave XFree86, join X.org, remaining people of XFree86 are peeved".

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X Window Manager by SwitchBitch · 2004-01-23 02:56 · Score: -1, Redundant

I haven't read the article, but I thought X was separate from the window manger ?
XFree86 has not merged with X.org by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-23 06:17 · Score: -1, Redundant

From the XFree86.org website:

XFree86 has not Merged with X.Org
[23 January 2004]

There are several news items claiming that X.Org and The XFree86 Project have merged. This is a blatant lie. The XFree86 Project remains an independent organisation, and will continue as operate as an independent organisation according to its mission statement. There has been no discussion with X.Org about any such merge, let alone any agreement to a merge.

X.Org is a vendor-sponsored organisation, formed by vendors to best suit the interests of those vendors; XFree86 is an independent volunteer organisation, with a focus on the individual. Therein lies the rub.