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Mandrake Blocked By XFree86 4.4 License

Posted by simoniker on from the dueling-legalese dept.

Linzer writes "A mailing-list message posted by Mandrake Linux's main developer on the Cooker mailing-list states that the development version of the distro is about to revert from XFree86 4.4 to the 4.3 version because of XFree86's recent license change. Mandrake contributors have started asking for justifications from MdkSoft. Many point out features of XF86 4.4 [an 'an open source X11-based desktop infrastructure'] they can't live without, including support for some not so uncommon hardware. A later Cooker mailing-list post extends a bit on the reasons."

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  1. Re:Enter the GNU by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    RMS would say that "XFree86 4.4" is an oxymoron, and that it should be called "XNotFree86 4.4". That way Mandrake is technically using the latest XFree86 version and everyone is happy in their respective Free/Non-Free worlds.

  2. meanwhile by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Debian is expected to run into this problem in 2038. Way to go Branden.

  3. Re:Good for them by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 5, Funny
    This is like a scene in "Animal House". Just transpose the location to the MIT cafeteria...

    Girl from Gamma Pi Lambda: "That boy is a 'B' 'S' 'D' 'PIG'!"

    Desko: "Try to see if you can get what I am now...
    (spits mountain of code onto everyone's hair and clothing.)
    I'm a patch-cluster! Get it?"

    Engineering Student: "LICENSE FIGGHHTT!!!!

    (All chaos ensues...)

    --
    "Flyin' in just a sweet place,
    Never been known to fail..."
  4. Re:Wither X? by LittleLebowskiUrbanA · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait a minute. So what do all do I get out of killing a chicken at the full moon? If there's smooth sleep/resume involved, chickens watch out!

    --
    This guy is way out there
  5. Re:Enter the GNU by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually I think he prefers us to call it GNU/XNotFree86 4.4

  6. Re:Good for them by JPriest · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nobody here will mod you up but I sure agree with you.

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    Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
  7. Insightful? by vandan · · Score: 4, Funny

    As a longtime linux user, I can say that every single linux machine I've had, including the current latest-and-greatest, has miserably failed my Window Drag Test(TM).

    Yeah I remember when I had a 486 DX2-66 and I tried dragging xterms around I used to get some bad redraw stuff happening. Sometimes I'd even get artifacts that would stay behind after the window had passed on.

    What you have to do, dude, is get yourself another computer. I just performed your Window Drag Test (TM) and found that my windows drag around perfectly, as I seem to remember them doing for the past 5 years.

    And this is what people notice when they first sit down in front of a linux machine. And it's killing us. Whatever the shortcomings of Windows and Macs, neither have this problem.

    When people first sit down in front of a Linux computer, they don't do your patented fuck-tard test. "And it's killing us". Yeah right. I'm dying over here. My fucking 486 won't drag around my xterm across my twm desktop at an acceptable rate.

    Tosspot.