This is the childish actions of a whiny technofascists that's gotten himself banned for cause. Note the open bigotry right in the README. For some odd reason he feels the need to make an anti-DEI statement. Treat it like the far-right dog whistle it is.
this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2025
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Yuuuup. Even the X developers all moved on to Wayland work.
"Together we'll make X great again!" together with a Telegramm channel link
I pass.
The readme doesn't inspire confidence.
Yeah that's a bunch of red flags right off the bat.
Isn't X effectively dead anyway, and most people moving to Wayland?
It's not just effectively dead. A lot of people, who were core contributors to the project, declared it impossible to maintain, in modern scenarios. Does it still work? Most of the time. But it comes at a massive cost of having to deal with 40 years of tech debt, and band-aid decisions.
But even if you forget about that, this readme is a sign of major mental illness
Isn’t X effectively dead anyway, and most people moving to Wayland?
Yeah, XWayland will be around for quite some time but X11 / Xorg Server as stand-alone display server is pretty much dead.
DEI is a discriminatory policy for a repo? Granted I'm no programmer, but that feels like a made up "problem" to be solving for something like X.org. The README looks like the ravings of a spurned ex employee or someone that may need some professional help.
how would dei work with volunteer projects like online foss projects anyway?
I mean, whatever literally works.
Ok. This is interesting, if a bit conspiracy-theory-ish:
moles from BigTech, are boycotting any substantial work on Xorg, in order to destroy the project, to elimitate competition of their own products. Classic "embrace, extend, extinguish" tactics.
Right after first journalists began covering the planned fork Xlibre, on June 6th 2025, Redhat employees started a purge on the Xlibre founder's gitlab account on freedesktop.org: deleted the git repo, tickets, merge requests, etc,
I wonder what the story behind this is. Why would anyone want to hinder progress on X11?
Nobody wants to "hinder progress" on x11, there's just not much point focusing resources on a deprecated project...
I mean, read the github README. The author is claiming that there are people trying to sabotage progress on X11.
If there are folks actively working on a fork, then it's not deprecated, is it?
I read it, it didn't feel very convincing to me. I wish them luck with the project for sure, more options are always better, but I don't think companies not spending money on it is sabotage, and I don't really trust their thing about persecution given the weird anti-DEI rant. This has the smell of https://xkcd.com/1357/ all over it.
Oof. I didn't get that far. They really mention DEI in the project README? That's going to be a hard no from me. Even if I did agree with them, it has no place in the repo.
Big oof. I should have finished reading.
Readme literally was changed to have the phrase "make x great again". I wonder what got this person to fork it.