Re: Freedesktop vs. Xfree86, xprint etc.

From: I R A Darth Aggie (hfrarg_at_nttvr2x3.pbgfr.arg)
Date: 12/18/04 

Date: 18 Dec 2004 20:55:57 GMT

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:26:15 +0100,
J.O. Aho <user@example.net>, in
<32gtklF3iq6pdU1@individual.net> wrote:
>+ I R A Darth Aggie wrote:
>+ > J.O. Aho <user@example.net> wrote:
>+ >>+ At this stage the vendors don't have to choose which one to support, when
>+ >>+ they can just make one driver which works in both.
>+ >
>+ > Agreed. Currently, that's just a fortunate circumstance for XFree86.
>+ > I suspect that will change, and sooner rather than later.
>+
>+ Could be that XFree86 will change back to it's earlier licens and tell about
>+ the future and it could be that Xorg and XFree86 merges and we once more just
>+ have one.

Maybe. I won't hold out much hope for that, tho. Ego's are involved,
and it takes a very big person to say "I was wrong. I made a
mistake. I will now fix my mistake." and let their ego take a beating.

IMHO, of course.

James 

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