RE: license discussions
Marc Aurele La France <[email protected]>
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On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Jim Gettys wrote: > On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 15:26, Dr. Rich Murphey wrote: > > Any impression that a vendor consortium will be a public servant will almost > > certainly change with time. We've been there before. He who does not learn > > from history is doomed to repeat it. > Exactly. Some people learn from history, and some do not. > This is why the X.org Foundation is *not* a vendor > consortium, (despite the similarity of name to the predecessor > organization, which was an industry consortium), > and is an open membership organization, > where anyone who contributes has say in its governance. > In contrast, XFree86 has governance with no say from anyone > whatsoever except its board, which is self perpetuating, and > composed mostly of people who are no longer active contributors > to the X Window System. > So at this point, XFree86 has managed to become exactly what it > was founded to avoid, while what it avoided is becoming what > XFree86 should have been. XFree86 is repeating previous history. > Ironic, isn't it? Sigh. So sad. The wasted time and anguish. I wonder who exactly is out of touch with what an open software project is. I see little evidence that you, among many, perceive it as anything more than something to be exploited. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [email protected] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 developer and VP. ATI driver and X server internals.