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Long live Xorg, I mean Xlibre

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Re: Long live Xorg, I mean Xlibre

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No it isn't. I have contributed to, and used, many open source projects without it ever being political. All I did was share work I created because it might help someone out, or use a tool I found useful. Some people choose to make open source political and that's their right, but it isn't inherently political. That is a choice one makes.

> All I did was share work You may not have political opinions but you took political action....

Not far leftist identitiy political action though, and thats the key difference. That was nowhere to be found in software not that long ago.

Re: Long live Xorg, I mean Xlibre

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> If you like Xorg, use Xorg. If you like Wayland, use Wayland. If you're not happy about an issue, contribute to it. The problem is that RedHat nee IBM are attempting to force everybody onto Wayland by dropping X11 support. They already tried once and the outcry was so huge that they had to back off saying they would try again next version. This is kind of a rock and a hard place. The Wayland developers don't want t…

> The Wayland developers don't want to support X11 but neither does anybody else. You can't say that in a thread about the main maintainer forking it because he wants to maintain it against the wishes of the original maintainers. This post is literally about someone wanting to maintain it.

The maintainer of Xlibre was not the "main maintainer" of Xorg. It is all smoke and mirrors, a fake-it-till-you-make-it strategy to be able to prematurely say "I am a X developer" without having put in the work. Their commits only go back to 2022 and they are all miniscule changes that haven't fixed any of Xorg's architectural warts.
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