Re: XLibre official support?
On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 09:05:09PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 02:46:08PM -0500, Aaron Johnson wrote:
> > it would be a joy to see the Debian project bring on XLibre as a valid
> > alternative to other X implementations as well as Wayland, etc.
>
> I'd hope that no Debian Developer wants to get involved with the
> XLibre community.
>
> https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/XLibreIsExplicitlyPolitical
>
The title of that blog article is "The XLibre project is explicitly
political and you may not like the politics". Lol.
You must be aware that the Debian project itself, along with many of the
projects whose work is packaged in Debian, are just as, if not more,
political than XLibre. To say nothing of the author of that article.
The Debian Project Leader is policital, others in positions of
leadership and authority in Debian are political, and many others
involved with Debian (wether as developers of Debian, users of Debian,
promoters of Debian, etc.) are political. And those politics manifest
visibly in the various technical and non-technical decisions and
policies of Debian as a project. To pretend that "XLibre is political"
is somehow a contrast to Debian and other projects as inherently
apolitical or non-political is nothing short of delusional.
The correct characterization is "the leaders and supporters of XLibre
hold political views that some people don't like". I guess that should
be followed with, "film at 11".
Regards,
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sánchez
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