X11 and "surrounding technology" - was Re: Discussing issues

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> If you guys want to be the community resource that "owns" X11 and
> surrounding technology, then I think you have to accept some
> obligation to do it well - which doesn't just mean everyone writing
> good code in isolation, but also taking responsibility for the overall
> results. For better or worse, the overall results include nontechnical
> issues.
> 
> If you own X11 and surrounding technology, I think it's fair game
> for people to comment on how you're doing.

I'm not sure who lumped together X11 and "surrounding technology".
You seem to want XFree86 to cover both; I'm a luddite who
wants XFree86 to do X11, and let someone else layer "surrounding 
technology" on top.

Andrew C Aitchison