Re: misfits

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 01:06:52PM -0500, georgina o. economou wrote:
> It is clear that the intentions/belief/whatever of the XFree86 Project
> on this matter doesn't fit anymore with the ideal of the rest of the
> free software/open source/whatever community, which makes giving our
> time and effort doubtfull in these conditions.

As if you also didn't profit from the time and effort of the remaining
contributors, not me necessarily, since i only did some little thing
(mostly permedia3 driver work), but others gave you more meaningfull
contributions. One more reasons why i believe that the GPL is superior
to the BSDish family of licences.

> And Sven, like those on www.xfree86.org/distro-support.html who don't agree
> with your take, why don't you hightail it over to the Foundation series and go bond with your fellow man?  

Ah, i was expecting this higly agressive response from you Georgina, how
sad, but as said, i don't expect anything else from you on this matter.

BTW, please tell me which major distro (apart from slackware apparently)
did go for 4.4 ? And listing a whole page of mostly obscure distros is
not really a point in your favor. What of Suze, Redhat, Mandrake,
Debian, Yellow Dog Linux, Gentoo ? None of them are touching stuff with
these new licences, and they represent the major part of the linux
userbase, which mostly makes XFree86 irrelevant for the future. As for
*BSDish distros, only one out of 3 major distros did go your way.

This is a sad thing, but it was your choice to go that way, and altough
i disagree with this, i respect your choice. You should not put your
head in the sand though, and accept full responsability for that.

Friendly,

Sven Luther