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Something curious is going on surrounding X.Org and it's forks... (youtu.be)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by fwygon@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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Video Title: Open Source People are Fighting to Kill Open Source Projects

My take; since the comments have buried it under the angry defense of Wayland and Freedesktop by trying to dismiss the video creator (who isn't me).

I do think the video makes a pretty good point about how people who attack others for continuing X11 is very much violating the ethos of FOSS communities in general; and I have no doubts that if the claims made in the video are true; I think folks like Stallman would be kind of upset with people behaving that way because it only harms the FOSS community as a whole.

You may not agree with people who want to use X11 for their very niche use cases. That’s fine. But I do question any motives behind any kind of behavior that is not only ceasing all development on X11, but actively blocking and sabotaging others who want to work on X11 from doing so.

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[–] fwygon@beehaw.org 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It doesn't have to be sinister to be wrong, or, to violate the ethos standards that the FOSS community at large is supposed to stand for.