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   Jordan Petridis (alatiera@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 00:34:21 JST Jordan Petridis

   You don't get to own Xorg. It belongs to the X.org foundation and community.

   X.org literary hosts and runs Wayland and Weston

   Xorg is dead and we killed it. And nobody regrets it.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 00:34:19 JST 翠星石

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     @vulonkaaz @alatiera Later improvements should be released under the GPLv3-or-later tbh.
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     vulonkaaz v3.1 (vulonkaaz@v2.flyingcube.tech)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 00:34:20 JST vulonkaaz v3.1

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     @alatiera the X server is released under the MIT license
     
     the terms of that license are as follows:
     "[...]Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
     this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
     the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
     use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
     of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do
     so, subject to the following conditions:
     
     The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
     copies or substantial portions of the Software.[...]"
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     Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 02:58:09 JST Pawlicker

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     • vulonkaaz v3.1
     @Suiseiseki @alatiera @vulonkaaz "open source" corporate whores when they forget the license lets people fork
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 02:58:09 JST Johnny Peligro

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     • vulonkaaz v3.1
     • Pawlicker
     @PurpCat @Suiseiseki @alatiera @vulonkaaz this is so funny to see because distros or software can just deprecate x11 support and make it hard to patch it back and boom, that's it
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 03:10:28 JST 翠星石

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     • Johnny Peligro
     @mischievoustomato @PurpCat @alatiera @vulonkaaz Proprietary distro's have tried to force systemd, dbus and pulseaudio, but they have not and will not succeed.
     
     Wayland to xorg translation layer soon like apulse.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 03:27:56 JST 翠星石

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     • Shakil Akhtar 🇸🇦 🇵🇸
     • vulonkaaz v3.1
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     • Johnny Peligro
     @shakil_tcs @PurpCat @alatiera @mischievoustomato @vulonkaaz Pluseaudio is an extra point of failure and poetteringware and straight ALSA is much better.
     
     dbus should be IPC that just works, but it's always broken in some way and the interface is so bad it's not recommended that you use it directly.
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     Shakil Akhtar 🇸🇦 🇵🇸 (shakil_tcs@mstdn.starnix.network)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 03:27:57 JST Shakil Akhtar 🇸🇦 🇵🇸

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     @Suiseiseki @PurpCat @alatiera @mischievoustomato @vulonkaaz What's wrong with dbus and pulseaudio?

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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 03:46:31 JST Johnny Peligro

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     • Pawlicker
     @Suiseiseki @PurpCat @alatiera @vulonkaaz the stuff you say gets weirder and weirder
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 03:47:37 JST 翠星石

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     • Pawlicker
     • Johnny Peligro
     @mischievoustomato @PurpCat @alatiera @vulonkaaz Thank you.
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      (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 15:50:28 JST 

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     @alatiera Nobody would regret if I killed you in real life, either.
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 20:48:57 JST SuperDicq

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     @alatiera@mastodon.social Have you forgotten what the free as in free software meant?

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     wiz@loli.church's status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 03:44:25 JST Wiz

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     @PurpCat@clubcyberia.co @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @alatiera@mastodon.social @vulonkaaz@v2.flyingcube.tech Fork you loses 10k

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     wuhan.bat™ (jae@darkdork.dev)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 03:44:28 JST wuhan.bat™

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     @PurpCat @Suiseiseki @alatiera @vulonkaaz
     
     descendant of angry german kid
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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 19:54:31 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     @alatiera i recently came across actual evidence of the xlibre guy being a nazi, so i'm not going to promote xlibre at all - but i also think posts like yours provide an example of just the kind of arrogance i spoke of initially, in a now-deleted thread.

     the arrogance of suggesting <thing> is the future, that <old thing> is dead, etc.

     this is open source. people have choices.

     i would like for a non-nazi xorg fork to appear in the near future, mirroring the work being put into xlibre and more.

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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 19:59:54 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     @alatiera i also want wayland to flourish. i use it myself, and i generally regard it as superior to xorg in just about every way - yes, there are still rough edges, but it is indeed a viable choice.

     note how i call wayland a choice. i don't claim that it is "the future".

     nothing is the future. everything is a choice.

     when i see open source project devs talking about "community", that is something i reject entirely.

     there is no such thing as community. there are people and there are choices.

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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 20:12:04 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     @alatiera here is the evidence by the way: https://web.archive.org/web/20190404153507/https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20181010.191925.ee1331b6.en.html

     in this archived post, you clearly see the xlibre founder Enrico Weigelt, promoting neo-nazi ideology. I'm sure I could find plenty more examples.

     I find his posts shameful. Like, to be clear: fuck Nazis.

     But fuck you too. Your arrogance is something we could do better without, in the free software movement.

     I invite you to read the Free Software Definition.

     Fun fact: everyone has the right to fork Xorg. It's free software.