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On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 02:40, Brad Laue wrote: |
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> Very relevant. The year Linux begins to make its big stand as an |
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> end-user operating system its chief graphical component is rejected |
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> en-masse in a game of license-chicken. Who will blink first? |
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> It's extremely wreckless to reject a project of such massive importance |
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> without having a plan first. |
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> I'm not sure if there's *any* output from Xouvert, and from what I'm |
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> told, xserver-freedesktop is not a marketable product, simply a proving |
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> ground for technologies that may or may not appear in an actual X |
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> server. Great. We're not going to be able to pull an alternative out of |
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> our hats as quickly as everyone thinks. |
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> As dire as the legal implications may be in including 4.4, somehow it |
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> still feels like cutting off your nose to spite your face. |
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Except for one simple thing you may have overlooked. We can still run |
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4.3 forever. There is nothing forcing anyone to upgrade. I think if |
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there were no alternative (running an older version IS and alternative) |
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we would all be less likely to be so adamant on our position. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Games Team |
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Is your power animal a penguin? |
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