Context: X11Libre is a fork of X11 aiming at preserving the X Server (fair enough, right?). One of the creators got permanently banned from freedesktop.org for apparently violating the Code of Conduct (no info on that, they just blame Red Hat), see themselves as hunted by both Big Tech and “toxic elements” who “took over the X11 project” They want to “make X great again”.

The issue about their highly political README (which they wrote due to the original project “becoming too political”, lol) also contains the usual red flags like transphobia. https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/issues/40

  • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
    1331·
    5 个月前

    Found more context, for who is now curious:

    • Apparently threatening violence with guns is okay (just got marked as “off-topic”).
    • The maintainer of X11Libre, Enrico Weigelt, is an anti-vaxer who already got scolded by Torvalds for writing bullshit on the kernel mailing list

    The more I read into X11Libre, the more I’m laughing. Now the freedesktop ban also makes perfect sense.

    • mmmm@sopuli.xyz
      551·
      5 个月前

      The maintainer of X11Libre, Enrico Weigelt, is an anti-vaxer who already got scolded by Torvalds for writing bullshit on the kernel mailing list

      Oh, so it’s him. Dude got absolutely lucky Linus is on mild mode nowadays. On his prime the scold would’ve been of such epic proportions all the viruses he could have on his body would’ve leave him out of pure cringe.

    • Railcar8095@lemm.ee
      25·
      5 个月前

      Honestly, I’m fully on board of this development. It might be useful for those distros that can’t move to Wayland and, more importantly, can keep the developers far from everything else.

      • HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        42·
        5 个月前

        Lol, how will they get any contributions if they explicitly say that trans girls are not welcome? You know who run the internet?

        • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
          23·
          5 个月前

          The project will either die through lack of interest or over-availability of cringe. There’s no way for it to succeed with this MAGA nonsense and threats plastered all over it, they’d have a hard time finding enough devs even without alienating everyone except Fox News viewers. Meanwhile they’ll feel confirmed in their worldview due to all the rightful criticism flooding in.

          If the project survives this initial phase of antipathy we’ll probably get years of cringe from it.