Good points.
Open source/Free software is rather like a river: the water rushes around obstacles, getting a bit turbulent, but never stops going where it's going. With enough time and force, the obstacle gets washed away.
And to continue this rather silly analogy:
A certain SCO executive could be seen as a beaver (with lots of other lawyer beavers) trying to build a dam...
Jason Dixon wrote:
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 11:20, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
At 09:36 2/18/2004, you wrote:
Read this morning on Slashdot that other distros are not going to support 4.4 due to this problem. I think Debian is backing out of 4.4 and going back to 4.3.Anyone care to comment on the consequences and implications for the end-user? I am not particularly license-literate, so while this raises a great deal of concern I am not sure quite what to make of it.
None, so far as I see. This can be a good thing, no matter how it turns out. If it means forking X, or perhaps quicker adoption of freedesktop's X, great. If all the pressure from distributors continues, and XFree86 backs down to their pre-4.4 license, great. On one hand we get an organization with a better grasp of the end-user. On the other, we see the strength of the OSS community. Mind you, this isn't a Red Hat issue. It's not even a Linux issue. There are a LOT of projects out there that depend on a free X. That's a lot of weight to bear for one Mr. Dawes.
I mean, it's not like we don't have alternatives. It's not like X just matured yesterday. Anyone can take 4.3 and fork.
Nothing to see here folks, just my $0.02. Please move on.
