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Matthew Kennedy wrote: |
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> Stewart <blkdeath@g.o> writes: |
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>>Graphical User Environment = Market Acceptance. Period. |
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> Irrelevant. |
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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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Brad |
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