[forum] XFree86's Future and thoughts and suggestions

[John Dennis]

On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 11:00, David Dawes wrote:
> I fail to understand why, if you don't like the way this particular
> group of people does things, you don't go off and do it differently
> yourself.  There's nothing stopping you.

Isn't this precisely what prompted the entire discussion we find
ourselves embroiled in? A group of people didn't like the direction and
wanted to fork. I thought I heard earlier a desire to prevent the fork
and a willingness to listen to and address the concerns that prompted
the desire to fork, this seems to me a positive approach that I applaud
the XFree86 team for. A few days ago it was stated the XFree86 team
wanted to contemplate the issues for a few days and would issue a
collective response. I think most folks think this is a very important
next step and are waiting to see how it plays out and are hoping it has
a different tenor than expressed above, which I do understand might have
just been personal frustration and understandable given recent events.

John