Re: Re: XFree86 4.4.0 RC3

> From: David Dawes <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [forum] Re: XFree86 4.4.0 RC3
> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:45:52 -0500
> 
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 01:36:57PM -0800, Paul Vojta wrote:
> 
> >What about, ``others (e.g., X.org) are forking the code as a result of
> >these changes''?
> 
> Others had already forked the code for mostly political or "business"
> reasons.  So what is your point?

Who are these others, how major are they, and how major were they prior
to their fork?  I don't know of any offhand, and I suspect that they are
either very minor players or are commerical entities.

Another post to this list indicates that OpenBSD, Mandrake, Debian, and
X.org are not going along with the new license.  These are *major players*
in X.

So, my point is, forking is bad.  Rightly or otherwise, this license change
is causing forking of an order of magnitude worse than has occurred in the
past, and this should be taken very seriously in deciding whether to continue
with the license change.

As they say in business, ``the customer is always right.''

--Paul Vojta, [email protected]