Re: history, vision, and politics

On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 11:27:36AM -0400, georgina o. economou wrote:
> but neither X.Org nor GNOME
> will die simply because their Foundations run out of money. (Though their
> foundations running out of money may be a sign that so few people use the
> technology any more to continue to sustain it.)
> 
> -- 
>      -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
>       Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
> 
> ---
> 
> I think Alan you're missing Dave's point, perhaps intentionally but anyways you're ignoring it. 
> 
> I am speaking about the differece between XF86 and your projects is that XF86 is self-sustaining because it is driven by committment and vision, not dollars and cents. That's what you have to have, and if everyone is there just because they are paid to,  well when the jobs/money stop so does the project.  Even Microsoft has admitted that when the core team of MS execs (Ballmer, Gates a few others) should leave who will continue the fight?  Gates has said on more than one case, He worries about that. With how many billion in the bank, He worries about focus and committment?  

Georgina, and you are missing the point, that by the recent licence
change, you are driving out many if not most of the volunteers who
contributed code to the XFree86 Project in the past, thus signing your
own death sentence.

I don't think this is a good thing for XFree86, but again, it is your
decision to take.

Friendly,

Sven Luther