From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 22 08:21:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA18898 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:21:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lorax.ubergeeks.com (lorax.ubergeeks.com [206.205.41.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA18880; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:21:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adrian@lorax.ubergeeks.com) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by lorax.ubergeeks.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA00588; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 11:20:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from adrian@lorax.ubergeeks.com) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 11:20:19 -0400 (EDT) From: ADRIAN Filipi-Martin Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: Brett Glass cc: Joey Garcia , Greg Lehey , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Open Source Town Meeting" supports only one faction In-Reply-To: <199807220615.AAA26625@lariat.lariat.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Brett Glass wrote: > At 12:59 AM 7/22/98 -0400, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > > > I second this! The XFree86 folks are as OS neutral a free-source > >project as there ever will be. And it is one group which everyone is well > >put to support. > > > > Adrian > > I like this idea. With X being "privatized," it pays to contribute to keeping > the freely-available version up to date. > > --Brett Absolutly. This is a point I forgot to make. With XFree86 going their own way and the Open Group going theirs, it is indescribably important that the XFree86 people be supported. Who knows... showing that poeple/companies are more willing to give money to a truly open source project as opposed to paying under pressure to an organization with "open" and backs proprietary standards such as Motif.... maybe we a meessage couyld be sent to TOG to shape up. Yes, this last paragraph is very wishful thinking. I also wish the open software community wielded enough clout to make this happen. Hell, I wish they wielded enough clout to start working on their own standards without company politics... now what to we do about developer personalities... cheers, Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message