XFree86 4.4 Released

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Posted by michael on Sunday February 29, 2004 @07:48AM from the license-problems-unnecessarily-hard dept.

puriots0 writes "XFree86 version 4.4 is finally out! Grab it while it's still hot, if you don't mind the recent licensing changes... And if you don't care about the license, but the maintainers of your distribution do, this might be the only way to get it for the moment." The XFree86 people seem very eager to claim that the new license is nothing bad; see their FAQ. However, people who have reviewed it, such as RMS and Branden Robinson, think differently. It looks as if the XFree86 people have a short timespan to either rethink their license changes or be dropped from every/almost every Linux distribution in favor of a forked codebase.

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fp by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-29 07:50 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Re:I Hate Texas by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-29 07:53 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Texas hates you.

Don't fuck with Wisconsin.
Re:Licensing by ISayWeOnlyToBePolite · 2004-02-29 08:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Are you trying to be funny with that firefox sig.? lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/debian-devel-20 0402/msg01877.html I'm not laughing.
Speaking of forks by Gothmolly · 2004-02-29 08:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

In Soviet Russia, the XFree86 Project forks YOU!

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Re:Lets make it as complex as possible for everyon by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-29 08:32 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Why is this modded as Flamebait?

You moronic moderators are gonna get yours. I meta-moderated every damn chance I get and trust me, you guys are getting slammed.
what about microwindows/nanogui by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-29 08:41 · Score: 0, Offtopic

microwindows/nanogui can be setup to be binary compatible with xlib.
Re:It's sad ... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-29 08:43 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Shit, i hope someone meta-moderate this ...

The post is not troll, it's not interesting, and it has not been overrated. There is no need to moderat every single post, it was ok at 1.
I Got moded +1 interesting, then someone thought it was a bad thing, and moded me -1 overrated, and then someone came and put me down as troll???????
Please explain the troll part of this post because i just don't get it.
There are too much assholes with modpoints in their hands.
PLEASE, METAMODERATE, HELP SLASHDOT BE A BETTER PLACE.
BTW: SHouln'd we implement a different moding system, where you actually SEE who has modded you??.
I will protecto my karma this time, sory.
Re:Pathetic by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-29 08:46 · Score: -1, Offtopic

And you Sir are an uninformed idiot.
Re:RMS doesn't like it? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-29 12:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Hey AC, you shouldn't be posting on slashdot, you should be home working on your friggin Masters degree while on hiatus :P