Although I suppose that this goes back to ESR & RMS's ongoing debate about open source v. free software, last year's aborted X11R6.4 licence change makes me somewhat sceptical of The Open Group as any kind of reputable open source (nevermind free software) developer. Although they seem to have recanted, (see www.xfree86.org) I think a suggestion to developers that they go and clear all their ideas via the The Open Group and try to get them to initiate X12 to integrate them in; is going to leave a bad taste in many people's mouths.
As for the suggestion that using Motif is a good path for open software development (even with Lesstif coming on apace), try telling that to the Mozilla developers.
However I do agree that as a mature standard X11 has a lot to offer and further would respectfully suggest that many of the more vocal "let's get rid of X" proponents don't understand exactly what they are proposing to chuck out (as opposed to the developers etc. who are doing less talking and more coding).
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Although I suppose that this goes back to ESR & RMS's ongoing debate about open source v. free software, last year's aborted X11R6.4 licence change makes me somewhat sceptical of The Open Group as any kind of reputable open source (nevermind free software) developer. Although they seem to have recanted, (see www.xfree86.org) I think a suggestion to developers that they go and clear all their ideas via the The Open Group and try to get them to initiate X12 to integrate them in; is going to leave a bad taste in many people's mouths.
As for the suggestion that using Motif is a good path for open software development (even with Lesstif coming on apace), try telling that to the Mozilla developers.
However I do agree that as a mature standard X11 has a lot to offer and further would respectfully suggest that many of the more vocal "let's get rid of X" proponents don't understand exactly what they are proposing to chuck out (as opposed to the developers etc. who are doing less talking and more coding).