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by **Todd C. Mille** » Wed, 29 Apr 1998 04:00:00

Wow, this is truly amazing. So The Open Group is hoarding security
fixes but they are perfectly happy to pull in work from the free
software world. At least they've shown their true colors and that
all the talk of releasing R6.4 under an Artistic-like license is
merely a ploy to keep control of X. I suppose they were worried
that a truly free version of X would be more popular than theirs
and become a de facto standard. This is truly sad.

If this is the way The Open Group is going to behave I sincerely hope
that the XFree86 team decides to base future releases on R6.3 and
have as little as possible to do with these people.

- todd
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by **Oleg Broytman** » Thu, 30 Apr 1998 04:00:00

Hello.

> Wow, this is truly amazing. So The Open Group is hoarding security
> fixes but they are perfectly happy to pull in work from the free
> software world. At least they've shown their true colors and that
> all the talk of releasing R6.4 under an Artistic-like license is
> merely a ploy to keep control of X. I suppose they were worried
> that a truly free version of X would be more popular than theirs
> and become a de facto standard. This is truly sad.

Since (not so)Open Group announce, I was afarid that sooner or later
something like this have to happen.

Quote:> If this is the way The Open Group is going to behave I sincerely hope
> that the XFree86 team decides to base future releases on R6.3 and
> have as little as possible to do with these people.

But we must help XFree to split X development. The best thing is to
write software that draw us more users, write documentation, and protect
all of this with GPL.

Oleg.
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