A large portion of the people in "Open Source" -- including Red Hat -- have been moving, rather dramatically, away from some of the core ideals of "Open Sour...
Video Title: Open Source People are Fighting to Kill Open Source Projects
Can we just let X11 die with some dignity? I don’t know who this guy on the video is? Is he important? My impression is he seems like a generic popcorn feeder.
Go fork X11 or whatever, nobody is stopping you! Feel free to try and solve the puzzle of making X11 not suck while subject to the constraints of having to satisfy specifically those users who will not allow you to make any changes that inconvenience their rickety 40yo software that nobody cares enough to update to fix whatever is keeping it from running in Wayland (pro tip we’re not talking about open source software here, the things that break are closed source blobs). It’s well worth the effort rather than spinning up a container or kvm to run that proprietary binary.
Can we just let X11 die with some dignity? I don’t know who this guy on the video is? Is he important? My impression is he seems like a generic popcorn feeder.
Go fork X11 or whatever, nobody is stopping you! Feel free to try and solve the puzzle of making X11 not suck while subject to the constraints of having to satisfy specifically those users who will not allow you to make any changes that inconvenience their rickety 40yo software that nobody cares enough to update to fix whatever is keeping it from running in Wayland (pro tip we’re not talking about open source software here, the things that break are closed source blobs). It’s well worth the effort rather than spinning up a container or kvm to run that proprietary binary.