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XFree86 Politics & Keith Packard

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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

True to a point, however Havoc points out that this is not 100% correct:

From:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2003-March/msg00011.html

"Unfortunately, this isn't true. We are relying on X11 innovations,

including fontconfig, Xft, Xr, Xc, Xcursor, RENDER, and so forth."

I must say though that this doesn't seem unresolvable, more something to keep in mind.

Cheers

Stor