Question about the future of Xorg

[Felipe Contreras]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM Robert Funnell <robert.funnell at mcgill.ca> wrote:
> On 2025-06-22 11:42, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM Alan Coopersmith
> > <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:

> >> (Not to mention many of us have employers who require that media contacts
> >>    go through our work press relations staff, and that we not engage in
> >>    outside interviews without that.)

> > Are you telling me that your employee is forbidding you from engaging
> > with citizen journalists from the open source community?
> >
> > You can just say that, and that's what I will report.
>
> He did not say his employer [not 'employee'], he said some employers.

And I didn't claim his employer forbids him from engaging with citizen
journalists. Did I?

> I would guess that you've just thrown away whatever chance you had of
> getting cooperation from the developers.

There was no such chance in the first place. I gave them plenty of
time to say something, and no one did.

Right now they could simply say "I'm a developer committed to
maintaining Xorg for the foreseeable future, but I don't want to
answer any questions".

Will they?

* crickets *

-- 
Felipe Contreras