GMOME, KDE Developers' Open Statement on XFree86
Vadim Plessky
vplessky at faringosept.ru
Sat Mar 29 21:11:04 GMT 2003
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 10:12, Daniel Stone wrote:
| On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:29:55AM +0100, Kurt Pfeifle scrawled:
[...]
|
| > Also, I think a statement like the above was even appropriate if the
| > direct invitation hadn't been issued. What would you do if there *was* a
| > fork in XFree86? You'd possibly have to *decide* (instead of just
| > comment) -- decide which one of the forks you'd start to support first
| > (even if you wanted to support both in the end)... You'll be forced to
| > *decide* something about the mess (or the chance, depending on your
| > point of view): in other words, you'd "get your hands dirty" and
| > "interfere in other project's politics", as you see it....
|
| My decision has been made. KDE cannot make a decision until anything
| happens, so making a statement saying "we don't know what's going on,
| and can't make a decision until we do", is dumb.
If we want new features for KDE being added (at XFree86 level) - we need to
influence Xfree86 development. I don't see another option.
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Vadim Plessky
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