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XFree86 Politics & Keith Packard

Submitted by sbutle on Fri, 2003-03-21 06:45. FreeDesktop.org
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PCLinuxOnline is reporting that Keith Parkard wants to fork the XFree86 effort and has subsequently been removed from the XFree86 core team. The issue in general. and if GNOME should send out a statement supporting Keith, is currently being discussed by various GNOME community members on the GNOME Foundation mailing list. The issue is also being discussed on slashdot.

Re: XFree86 Politics & Keith Packard

Submitted by FooBarWidget on Fri, 2003-03-21 12:16.

"The problem is that any sort of fork in X could leave GNOME and KDE in the difficult position of needing to support both branches. Particularly if one of GNOME's corporate partners chooses a different path with regard to X."

No it won't. This problem doesn't exist.

Many people don't realize it, but XFree86 is just an implementation of a *standard*: the X11 standard. QT and GTK target the X11 standard, not XFree86 the implementation.

GNOME and KDE will run happily on any other X server as if nothing changed.

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