Leo Mekenkamp wrote:
Hi Harold,
You probably have never heard about me, and until an hour ago I had never heard about you, but that does not stop me to climb into my keyboard and send you this email.
I read 'the thread' on the mailing list, and what I can conclude on it can be simply summarized as: You seem to be doing your best in making a very usefull free piece of software; 'they' seem to be high up in some ivory tower thinking that all the x code base are belong to them.
Such a pity. Instead of trying to resolve your issues the only thing the xfree guys seem to do is push you to a certain state where 'your emotions take over' and you let out a 'fuck you', and then they very childishly respond that they will not listen to you anymore when you let out such insults.
I can only conclude that the xfree guys have lost touch with the positive side of themselves and have let arrogance take over. An oss/free software project should be all about working together; they are certainly not doing their best to work together.
So, to keep with your words: 'fuck them'; maybe the xouvert guys will appreciate your contributions? I do hope this whole thing does not take away your spirit in working on cygwin.
Heh heh... Thanks for your support.
Don't worry, I haven't lost the spirit. I have a set number of hours to work on Cygwin/X per month and now I won't be spending any of those hours trying to keep the XFree86 CVS tree in synch.
We will be working with some other X Window System projects. I will make a more formal announcement later, but I want to just code for a few days.
Thanks again,
Harold