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

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[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 62 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Based on the README and that article, the founder sounds like he is deep into conspiracy theories and is an anti-vaccine MAGA person.

Not to downplay the problems on xorg and I am happy it's getting forked, but wtf is up with "No DEI" "Make X great again" in the README... Doesn't convince me at all that this project is going to stay intact and upkept on the long term.

Edit: added some words

Edit2: yeah okay, he's a complete nutjob and a shitty person. See link below

[-] abbiistabbii 28 points 3 days ago

How the fuck you gonna enforce "no dei"? You gonna demand every contributer is white, male, Christian and cishet?

[-] jonathan@piefed.social 16 points 3 days ago

see him also here https://web.archive.org/web/20190404153507/https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20181010.191925.ee1331b6.en.html

[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 6 points 2 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.

[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 23 points 3 days ago

FWIW, X.org is Libre already.

And that article does not inspire me to delve deeper into the topic.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 12 points 3 days ago

This would've been great news to hear about if not for the stupid opinion about DEI being included to completely undermine any faith we might've had in the competence or judgement of the person responsible.

[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

For the person that diehard refuses to switch development to Wayland

[-] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in 11 points 3 days ago

Good to know some people are still working on X.

Git repo for those who're interested

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Is it though?

Hmm

Welp

Seriously though, fuck this guy and his project. Refuse to support it. In fact, use an alt account to introduce subtle bugs and flaws to the codebase if you can. It’s always a good day to fuck with Nazis. And this right here is a project run by a Nazi.

Edit: if anyone dares to whinge about “getting political” with my comment in this community: this is a screencap of the fucking README.MD. It’s an inherently, overtly political commentary in the project that’s clearly friendly to an authoritarian regime. Fuck all that noise.

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