Re: Mission offers no support

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 10:25:37AM -0500, georgina o. economou wrote:
> John repeats: 
> 
> my main topic/issue is really more to do with the mission statement
> 
> ---
> 
> An issue I totally do not understand John.  The reason I say this is we offer 
> XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx which is where we 'try' to give help to those with problems with their configuration/installation.  Isn't that enough?  I think most people walk away happy and no one feels coerced into giving 'support'.  It's a gift they give to get more to use their product.  So I think you are focusing too much on the mission statement and not enough on the lists.
> 
> So, now that we all own issues, what I can't fathom is how this whole GPL compatibility thing happens or does not happen.  I think I'll make it my 'issue' and ask Alex for starters, for some input and lots of tinyurl's ;-)

Basically, because this latest change has set some doubt in the mind of
contributors to the project about future such sudden change of
direction, and maybe do feel doubtfull about the meaningfullness of
giving their contribution to the XFreee86 project under such conditions.

It is clear that the intentions/belief/whatever of the XFree86 Project
on this matter doesn't fit anymore with the ideal of the rest of the
free software/open source/whatever community, which makes giving our
time and effort doubtfull in these conditions.

It is a problem of thrust and confidence, which was unilateraly broken
by the XFree86 project, without any good reason, at least no such reason
which was openly and frankly claimed.

Friendly,

Sven Luther
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