Re: [gentoo-dev] No XFree86 w/ new license

[Jay Maynard]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:25:53AM +0100, John Nilsson wrote:
> 1. Virtually all operating systems today ships with some GUI.

But it's not required to run the OS. Neither of my Gentoo boxes has X, and
neither will.

> Even though I argue for compatibility, I still think it is correct to
> not ship XFree86. Mostly because Gentoo would and the OSS world would be
> far better of with a more "geekish" and open development of the X11
> implementation.

I think it's correct not to ship XFree86 as things stand, too...but I also
think it's unfair as hell to hold the X folks solely responsible for the
situation. What we have here are two squabbling children, and most folks are
playing favorites. That's nto the way to handle squabbling children.


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