RE: Re: XFree86 4.4.0 RC3

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of Alan Coopersmith
> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 6:26 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [forum] Re: XFree86 4.4.0 RC3
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> 	-Alan Coopersmith-          [email protected]
> 	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. -- Operating Platforms Group
> 	 Solaris x86 & Interface Technology: X Window System

It's lead by many of the same vendors who
continue exert quite a bit of control.

Rich