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Re: cygwin xfree86 split


Leo,

Leo Mekenkamp wrote:
Hi Harold,

You probably have never heard about me, and until an hour ago I had
never heard about you, but that does not stop me to climb into my
keyboard and send you this email.

I read 'the thread' on the mailing list, and what I can conclude on it
can be simply summarized as: You seem to be doing your best in making a
very usefull free piece of software; 'they' seem to be high up in some
ivory tower thinking that all the x code base are belong to them.

Such a pity. Instead of trying to resolve your issues the only thing the
xfree guys seem to do is push you to a certain state where 'your
emotions take over' and you let out a 'fuck you', and then they very
childishly respond that they will not listen to you anymore when you let
out such insults.

I can only conclude that the xfree guys have lost touch with the
positive side of themselves and have let arrogance take over. An
oss/free software project should be all about working together; they are
certainly not doing their best to work together.

So, to keep with your words: 'fuck them'; maybe the xouvert guys will
appreciate your contributions? I do hope this whole thing does not take
away your spirit in working on cygwin.

Heh heh... Thanks for your support.


Don't worry, I haven't lost the spirit. I have a set number of hours to work on Cygwin/X per month and now I won't be spending any of those hours trying to keep the XFree86 CVS tree in synch.

We will be working with some other X Window System projects. I will make a more formal announcement later, but I want to just code for a few days.

Thanks again,

Harold


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