Re: Re: XFree86 4.4.0 RC3

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> mark kandianis wrote:
> > yeah but why keep making a different named org  retaiining all the same 
> > players?
> > why didn't they just keep the original one?  what's the diff?
> > even alan admits it's same so why bother?
> 
> I didn't say it was the same.  The old X.org was an industry consortium,
> the new X.org Foundation is a non-profit open source group much like the
> GNOME Foundation.  The difference is membership will no longer be restricted
> to companies who pay thousands of dollars per year and the honorary membership
> of the XFree86 Project, but will be open, allowing the community a much greater
> say in the ongoing development of the X Window System.
> 

  Didn't XC membership pay for X Window System development?
It appears to me that the people who want the say are mostly
the same people as before (ie. industry).  They just don't want 
to pay for it now.


			Mark.