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Worst case scenario: non-free drivers gain acceptance

Worst case scenario: non-free drivers gain acceptance

Posted Mar 7, 2013 10:38 UTC (Thu) by Wol (guest, #4433)
In reply to: Worst case scenario: non-free drivers gain acceptance by dlang
Parent article: Canonical reveals plans to launch Mir display server (The H)

No. Probably THE major reason is the guys with power in XFree86 (not the guys doing the work, they left to form Xorg) said "if you want a gui, use Windows".

Sad but true - I think the final straw was when ?Keith Packard (who had been doing 90% of the coding) had his commit rights withdrawn.

Cheers,
Wol


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