XOrg vs XFree86

Paul Thomas paul at tmsl.demon.co.uk
Sat Mar 27 00:16:54 UTC 2004


On 26/03/2004 20:51 Matt Morgan wrote:
> And for clarity: at the moment, XOrg is just the last release of XFree86 
> before the license change. So it should really not cause much trouble 
> (at least for now).
> 
> There has been a lot of discussion about this on slashdot.org. If you 
> search for stories about XOrg and XFree86 in the last month or two, and 
> view comments with a filter set so you only see high-moderated comments, 
> a few of them did a good job of explaining the situation.

Whilst I view the whole situation as a pointless swabble between a few 
disfunctional bozos with over-inflated egos, I do wonder what the XFree86 
folks are going to if no-one uses their software...


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