RE: license discussions

[Marc Aurele La France <tsi@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.

> In contrast, XFree86 has governance with no say from anyone
> whatsoever except its board, which is self perpetuating, and
> composed mostly of people who are no longer active contributors
> to the X Window System.

> So at this point, XFree86 has managed to become exactly what it
> was founded to avoid, while what it avoided is becoming what
> XFree86 should have been. XFree86 is repeating previous history.

> Ironic, isn't it?  Sigh.  So sad.  The wasted time and anguish.

I wonder who exactly is out of touch with what an open software project is.  I
see little evidence that you, among many, perceive it as anything more than
something to be exploited.

Marc.

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