Re: xfree86 license

[Peter Fairbrother <zenadsl6186@zen.co.uk>]

eric-dated-1075869104.214bbab93fbb25@catastrophe.net wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 16:05:29 +1100, Darren Reed proclaimed...
> 
>> This is what I suspected.
>> 
>> So OpenBSD just wants to use the work of others and not give them
>> credit for it, if they don't have to, right ?
> 
> Well just think, maybe we'll get a nice new graphics environment
> written by the OpenBSD team. Kinda like when they went the way of
> writing pf over other applications.
> 

'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. X is bloated crapo.

But I question whether the OpenBSD team are the right guys to do it - they
have the skills and the licence, but they probably don't have the time, and
they are too server-oriented - writing a graphics environment is more
desktoppy. Not something I'd associate with OpenBSD!


-- 
Peter Fairbrother