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LPC: 25 years of X

LPC: 25 years of X

Posted Oct 1, 2009 20:35 UTC (Thu) by JLCdjinn (guest, #1905)
Parent article: LPC: 25 years of X

Why did "all innovation on X simply stop" when its maintenance was assigned to the X Consortium? Is that related to the face that with the BSD license, "every vendor took the X code and created its own, closed fork", or did something else happen to land X in a swamp?


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LPC: 25 years of X

Posted Oct 1, 2009 20:36 UTC (Thu) by JLCdjinn (guest, #1905) [Link]

s/face/fact/, and I once again request comment editing. :)

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