Thursday, July 03, 2025

Re: Future of Xenocara

It sounds like Artix is already packaging it. It's good to see things
maintained.

-- Stephen

On Thu, Jul 03, 2025 at 07:54:34PM +0200, Emiel Kollof wrote:
> Stefan Moran schreef op 2025-07-03 01:32:
> > emiel@
> >
> > > As for the "politics":
> > >
> > > "It doesn't matter which country you're coming from, your political
> > > views, your race, your sex, your age, your food menu, whether you wear
> > > boots or heels, whether you're furry or fairy, Conan or McKay, comic
> > > character, a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri, or just a
> > > boring
> > > average person. Anybody who's interested in bringing X forward is
> > > welcome."
> > >
> > > There is no code of conduct, just the request to treat everyone
> > > civilly.
> > >
> > > There is also a call to distributions and operating systems that have
> > > their own forks (like OpenBSD has) to collaborate.
> >
> > Citing your own (uncited) source: https://archive.ph/jN4bI
> >
> > Paragraph prior to your copied paragraph:
> >
> > This is an independent project, not at all affiliated with
> > BigTech or any of their subsidiaries or tax evasion tools,
> > nor any political activists groups, state actors, etc. It's
> > explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory
> > policies. Anybody who's treating others nicely is welcomed
>
> How is this "bad"? Did you read past that watchword you trigger over this
> much?
>
> "Anybody who's treating others nicely is welcomed"
>
> Sure, mentioning disdain for DEI might not be conducive, and there are
> efforts underway to remove this wording, because it takes away the core
> message of the project, which is that there are folks at Xlibre who actually
> want to maintain X11 since FDO wants to let it rot and wither.
>
> This project is active. They welcome everyone and everyone. Look at the
> merit, not the puppets.
>
> Cheers,
> Emiel.
>

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