RE: license discussions

[Mark Vojkovich <mvojkovi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Jim Gettys wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 15:26, Dr. Rich Murphey wrote:
>
> >
> > Any impression that a vendor consortium will be a public servant will almost
> > certainly change with time.  We've been there before.  He who does not learn
> > from history is doomed to repeat it.
>
> Exactly.  Some people learn from history, and some do not.
>
> This is why the X.org Foundation is *not* a vendor
> consortium, (despite the similarity of name to the predecessor
> organization, which was an industry consortium),
> and is an open membership organization,
> where anyone who contributes has say in its governance.

 I believe that the X.org foundation will eventually be a vendor
consortium.  Some of the vendors have too much at stake and
I have seen the pressure they have put on the XFree86 project.
The X.org foundation will either come under attack as XFree86
has, with complaints of it not serving its constituents, or it
will turn into a vendor driven organization.  I predict the
later.

 You can call me cynical, but I even believe that there are
people associated with the creation of the X.org foundation
who know this, and that this is all just a guise to come up
with a vendor driven organization with a better public image.


			Mark.
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