Oppinion about Xlibre (fork of xorg)
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I hate to post a Microsoft github URL but as said in the update "Redhat employees started a purge on the Xlibre founder's More actions gitlab account on freedesktop.org: deleted the git repo, tickets, merge requests, etc".
https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/commit/610e91dc5f34e64036b7cdd08f0f953a672fcb36
As long the license is compatible with GPLv3 or is GPLv3 I have no issue with this, also he needs to self host or host somewhere else.
On a social level I'm particularly fond he wishes to break the spiral of passive violence that corporations have been infecting everything for divide and conquer reasons.
What do you think about this ?
>"Redhat employees started a purge on the Xlibre founder's More actions gitlab account on freedesktop.org: deleted the git repo, tickets, merge requests, etc"
From what I've been reading, the reason his merge requests are being purged is that they would break compatibility with some applications. I'm not personally certain if this is true or not.
We should keep in mind, RedHat is not evil just for being RedHat - many strong free software advocates have worked at RedHat, like Alexandre Oliva, head of the Linux-libre kernel project. And RedHat contributes a lot of important free software.
"I'm not personally certain if this is true or not. "
Well according to some other sources absolutely nothing is being merged and the project is left to rot.
And that aside whole discussion about xlibre on reddit's nvidia for example have been censored. Red Hat & FreeDesktop removed his account and git were purged. They violated their own CoC (as often with such cases).
That seems to be an exaggerated reaction against a fork if they Redhat/freedesktop would just mind about compatibility issues.
"And RedHat contributes a lot of important free software."
I agree and can't deny that. I also can't deny that redhat was bought by IBM and the slanders against RMS gave them the opportunity remove FSF fundings.
I repeat, as long as the license are GPLv3 or GPLv3 compatible I have no issue.
Socially speaking this can be a type of proxy EEE.
So it's worrying behavior from these entities imo.
The negative side of this apart.
If true then that means that the xlibre project will be another positive, not only technically but also socially (as it wants to breaks the spiral of violence that the corpos started). Time will tell I guess.
I looked this up and apparently, he has some interesting positions on politics and that is why he was banned... or so they say.
Problem is, even if I don't agree with his politics, as in apparently him being a MAGA person and a fascist...
I could also see Redhat booting him for trying to keep xorg alive however as well.
That is the type of thing Redhat would totally do.
So I have mixed feelings on xlibre.
I don't like either Redhat or him.
I just hope his politics don't infect his project. If he doesn't allow his political beliefs to infect his project, I am in favor of him succeeding anyways. Otherwise, I hope both redhat and his projects both die instead of just one of them.
I would prefer having options. I Think Xlibre would be a good option.