William M. Quarles wrote:
Who made the not-very-bright decision of choosing X.org over XFree86
for Fedora Core 2, and WHY?
I also LOVE (sorry, I was sarcastic, DESPISE) this item in the Release
Notes for FC 2:
"This release is a merger of the previous official X11R6 release,
XFree86 4.4.0rc2, and additionally includes a number of updates"
1. XFree86 4.4.0rc2 was not a release (hence the rc, "release candidate")
2. It's not like XFree86 4.4 didn't come out.
3. What is that made XFree86 no longer official? Because some
corporate bubbleheads decided to get together, swipe another
organizations code and pose it as their own? Please.
I thought Fedora Core was going to be less corporate and more open now
that Red Hat is no longer making Red Hat Linux. Apparently that isn't
the case. If things keep going this way, I'm going to find another
distribution. I certainly am not going to "upgrade to Fedora Core 2."
Good luck to all of you braving the frontiers of the 2.6 kernel, too.
Peace,
William
Errrrm, search the archives of this list for a full explanation, but the
long and the short of it was that the XFree group changed their license
in such a fashion as to make it impossible to include in Fedora and
still have it remain true to its stated principles.
It's a good thing, IMNSHO.
-Doug Stewart
