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On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 07:16, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> It is also about forming a united front against XFree. Basically XFree wants |
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> to force impossible conditions upon the distributors. Added to that the whole |
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> mess of openness, lack of progress, and not in the least the whole Keith |
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> Packard mess, and I believe that we should not start with giving in. |
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I saw Keith last month (he was one of the speakers we had at |
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Linux.Conf.Au) and you would *drool* over the stuff he's working on. |
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example - transparent windows (including transparent drop down menus!) |
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[And it's only partially a CPU hog!]... |
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I'd say that wherever Keith's work ends up, the net result of the |
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freedesktop.org stack will be an excellent and interoperable graphics |
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platform. |
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I use Gentoo because it's lack of fussiness and imposed dogma on most of |
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these sorts of issues, but I'm not worried about the stand taken here. |
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xfree is self destructing anyway. |
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I would suggest that in the spirit of inclusiveness that you put a 4.4 |
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ebuild together eventually, but never ever un-mask it, and have loud |
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comments in the ebuild about why. Hell - even call it something else - |
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"xfree-notfree" :) ? That way, if someone really wants 4.4 they can get |
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it, but it won't appear as an upgrade from 4.3, and everyone else will |
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stay happy and not be tempted to go there by accident or habit. |
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AfC |
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Canberra |
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Andrew Frederick Cowie |
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Operational Dynamics Consulting Pty Ltd |
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Australia +61 2 9977 6866 North America +1 646 472 5054 |
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http://www.operationaldynamics.com/ |
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