Re: Re: XFree86 4.4.0 RC3

Mark Vojkovich <[email protected]> wrote:

> > 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.

Any players involved in the new X.org will still pay for the development 
of the next generation X window system, but the payment is now in the 
form of sweat equity. More importantly anyone can be involved now and put 
in their own sweat equity to get stuff done.

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