> > take it upon themselves to clean up some of the mess. Stuff like that
> > doesn't get to absurd extremes in a truly open development system. In the
> > cloistered ivory tower of XFree86 development, it just keeps going and
> > going and going.... XFree86 4.0 will supposedly clean some of this mess
> > up. We'll see.
>
> Be fair to the XFree developers they inherited most of that code base
> rather than wrote it.
I wasn't aware of that. Who'd they inherit it from?
> I get the impression they are as aware as any one
> else of the problems
Good. Let's see what they do about it.
Jon
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