a lot of improvements in security, libs, abi, …
There’s a fork of Xorg server??
Yeah very recently, by a guy who says it is explicitly anti “DEI” in the readme and thinks there is some kind of conspirancy by IBM to kill Xorg
Just quoting the readme so there’s no misinterpretation:
This is an independent project, not at all affiliated with BigTech or any of their subsidiaries or tax evasion tools, nor any political activists groups, state actors, etc. It’s explicitly free of any “DEI” or similar discriminatory policies. Anybody who’s treating others nicely is welcomed. It doesn’t matter which country you’re coming from, your political views, your race, your sex, your age, your food menu, whether you wear boots or heels, whether you’re furry or fairy, Conan or McKay, comic character, a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri, or just a boring average person. Anybody who’s interested in bringing X forward is welcome.
Also the guy got told off by Linus Torvalds for being an anti-vaxxer https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/11/linus_torvalds_vaccine_smackdown/
So imo this isn’t a project that should be supported
So, you comdemn all the project because its founder just happened to have an opinion you don’t like about a topic completely disconnected from the software world ?
The anti DEI stuff is in the project readme and the anti vax bullshit was on the lkml. So I think the auther can not keep his ‘opinions’ and politics out of his projects. If he uses his software work to promote potentially dangerous believes, I don’t think the project should be supported or promoted
So far, his alleged opinions are more spread out by his detractors than by himself. Imo, this project brings more diversity of choice in the foss world, and that’s a good thing. I have nothing against wayland, but a de facto monopoly is never desirable. Tbh, I’m far more concerned by the hostility to this fork.
His opinion is literally on the frontpage of his project on github, there is nothing ‘alleged’ about it. I don’t think the project can be separated from his opinions
yes, apparently the development of Xorg is more or less abandoned in favor of wayland
the Xlibre fork seems more active
