Re: A Call For Open Governance Of X Development

On Tuesday 25 March 2003 02:23, Alan Cox wrote:
|  > Havoc - Why should a judgement of "pay-for-say" be any different for
|  > X.Org than for GNOME foundation?
|
|  The Gnome foundation members are elected. Gnome has a seperate arrangement
|  for company representation but that doesn't give them a say in the
| direction of Gnome or in the specs.
|
|  > >[1] One possible idea is pay-to-use-the-trademark instead of
|  > >pay-to-design-the-specs. i.e. a certification program.
|
|  Which just muddles the whole thing up as nobody dares call it X. End
|  result not the desired one.
|
|  I really don't know how it works out for X.org, for Gnome there are
|  companies who want Gnome to work willing to pay to make it work but at
|  the same time willing to accept that they pay to make it work not pay
|  to get a vote/say in things.

I have to admit that I am not familiar with GNOME Foundation, but everything 
said above looks like very reasonable, and I guess we have much stronger 
developement background for XFree86 & X.org in case similiar processes are 
implemented.

|
|  Alan
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