X.org and Xfree86 reform as a single group
Submitted by stro on Fri, 2004-01-23 00:29.
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In a press conference held today at LinuxWorld 2004 in New York, members of the old X consortium, some members of the disbanded Xfree86 core developer group, and Havoc Pennington of freedesktop.org announced that X.org and xFree86 have essentially merged, and that the reformed group is working together to bring "not just more eye candy but new functionality" to the X Window Manager for Linux and Unix. Another change is a new eagerness to work with -- and give credit to -- individual contributors rather than continue to view X development primarily as a corporate activity.