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X11: Where do we go from here?
X11: Where do we go from here?
Posted Feb 26, 2004 6:24 UTC (Thu) by daniels (subscriber, #16193)Parent article: X11: Where do we go from here?
I was barking up the wrong bush with my metaphor: try 'dug itself into a hole'.
That'll learn me to write email late at night.
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X11: Where do we go from here?
Posted Feb 26, 2004 10:29 UTC (Thu) by james (subscriber, #1325) [Link]
Well, it's not one of those over-used, hackneyed metaphors that infest the English language, but neither is it one of those mixed metaphors that make no logical sense whatsoever.
I rather like the imagery: XFree86 backs away from the traditional X license, not spotting the huge hole behind them until it's too late.
Do we have a cartoonist in the house?
James
X11: Where do we go from here?
Posted Feb 26, 2004 14:42 UTC (Thu) by branden (subscriber, #7029) [Link]
Daniel,Did LWN quote you correctly?
XFree86 did not get started when The Open Group relicensed X (with the X11R6.4 release). They had already been around for years. To my knowledge, the XFree86 Project got started as a fork of X386, which initially used the MIT/X11 license but then went proprietary. This goes back to 1993 or so.
At least, that's the history as I remember seeing it regurgitated in bits and chunks over the years on various mailing lists. I wasn't around for the actual events.
X11: Where do we go from here?
Posted Feb 26, 2004 20:11 UTC (Thu) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link]
Nothing you've said about TOG/X386/XFree86 is incorrect. I just expressedmyself when I was trying to say that XFree86 became more or less the canonical
X effort, largely replacing TOG.
X11: Where do we go from here?
Posted Feb 26, 2004 22:42 UTC (Thu) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link]
'expressed myself badly'. sigh.
X11: Where do we go from here?
Posted Feb 26, 2004 17:48 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]
Well, at least you didn't paint yourself up a tree without a paddle. :-)