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Xlibre, a new fork of the X.org X11 server, announced (www.theregister.com)

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 6 points 3 days ago

Damn. As a German! That's shameful. And of course utterly nuts.

I found this question on reddit with a really good reply, if someone's interested:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230605123206/https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/58doy0/ive_seen_a_number_of_conspiracy_theorists_and/

Sadly, Weigelt does not stand alone in the Linux community. I used to frequent one of the oldest and largest Linux forums, and there were all sorts of crazies. But more importantly, the general tone was more conservative than you'd think. Or rather Libertarian.