Re: GNOME, KDE developer statement

On Monday 24 March 2003 19:45, Havoc Pennington wrote:
|  A sizeable group of developers from the two leading free software
|  projects developing desktops based on the X Window System, KDE and
|  GNOME, have been discussing the current situation among themselves
|  and decided to draft and release this document.
|
|  We acknowledge the dedication of the XFree86 project in providing us a
|  free and innovative implementation of the X11 industry standard,
|  something we benefit from on a daily basis.  Therefore, we want to
|  share our joint point of view with the community.
|
|   1. XFree86's recent technical progress, culminating in the 4.3
|      release, brought significant advancements to the X desktop. Prior
|      X Window System implementations were lagging behind the needs of
|      modern desktop users.
|
|      Cursor theming, simplified font configuration, dynamic screen
|      resizing, and so on address long-overdue usability issues with X
|      desktops. XFree86's robust solutions in these areas have been
|      invaluable.
|
|      However, the work is not done. Our goal is to provide the
|      community with desktop systems far beyond what anyone offers
|      today. We are ready to take advantage of an X Window System
|      implementation that continues to innovate.
|
|   2. GNOME and KDE have two interests in X:
|
|       - We would like to have a single organization where X innovation
|         occurs. By innovation, we mean the definition of new APIs,
|         specifications, and features - new additions to the foundations
|         that KDE and GNOME rely on.
|
|       - We would like to have a frequently-released, robust, stable,
|         open source implementation of these APIs, specifications, and
|         features.
|
|      We are explicitly distinguishing innovation from implementation,
|      because standards should be adequate to allow multiple
|      fully-interoperable implementations.
|
|      Within the development organization responsible for defining and
|      crafting new features to be adopted as standards, innovation
|      should happen in the open, with all affected parties able to
|      participate early in the process.
|
|   3. We do not want to take sides on the recent political wrangling of
|      who did what when and who should be in charge. Our hope is that as
|      a community we can find a way to involve everyone in X's
|      development and move forward with solving technical challenges.
|
|   4. It makes sense to us if the organization responsible for X
|      innovation also develops the most widely used open source
|      reference implementation. This ensures an emphasis on working
|      code, and provides a pool of active technical expertise.
|
|   5. We would like to see this forum work toward a unified
|      organization, governed by active contributors, that implements,
|      deploys, and standardizes new X innovations.
|
|      We do not want to take an a priori position on how this
|      organization should be organized or governed - that is a
|      conversation we're trying to start, rather than one we're trying
|      to end. We trust and will support the X community as they work to
|      address this issue.
|
|  Best wishes
|
|  Waldo Bastian
|  Jonathan Blandford
|  David Faure
|  Glynn Foster
|  Jim Gettys
|  Jody Goldberg
|  James Henstridge
|  Chris Howells
|  Miguel de Icaza
|  Stephan Kulow
|  Antonio Larrosa Jimenez
|  Daniel Molkentin
|  Dirk Mueller
|  Ralf Nolden
|  Havoc Pennington
|  Zack Rusin
|  Daniel Veillard
|  Jeff Waugh
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Very well said!
I fully support statements above.

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Vadim Plessky
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