Sam Bent, 8 months ago (at this time), covered XLibre, which is essentially a fork of XOrg that wants to clean up the codebase, modernize it, and fix the security holes that lasted for years on XOrg.

Meetux, the developer, became persona-non-Grata in FreeDesktop, IBM, RedHat, and possible GNOME circles, simply because he wanted to fix Xorg so people have an option on what they want to use.

It’s also why I won’t kowtow to IBM, GNOME, and FDO’s demands, due to technical merit being moot.

  • Mugita Sokio@lemmy.todayOP
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    Wayland pushes a lot of breaking changes from what I’m aware of, while X is still stable. These are Wayland devs who are projecting what they’re doing onto people who use XOrg/XLibre.

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      You need to understand that Xorg is not a good piece of software by itself. Its entire value is staying unchanged and not having breaking changes. Once you remove that it becomes unuseful. On top of that, meetux did not introduce “breaking changes” in the sense of “new features that changes the API” he introduced “errors that slipped review” because he is not good enough to write code for Xorg. What did he say, that he is anti-dei and, and we should only include people based on skills? Well then he should be glad that he was excluded because on top of being an asshole he also lacks skills.