https://archive.is/yq8C8 - The Latest X.Org Server Activity Are A Lot Of Code Reverts
New developments, the hitpiece of/by Moronix (by Michael of Phoronix)!
It seems that attacks were not enough, Enrico showed that he'll actually continue working on this, so as of now aligned interests of corporate linux ecosystem must've changed their tactics, because this article isn't just a report, about "removing/revert bad quality code", oh no, it's direct smear campaign and it's written like a 70s communist propaganda piece, but let's move back a bit, let's address the one main argument our Moronix article author is actually "concerned" about:
Many Phoronix readers have been asking why I haven't been covering news of the "X11Libre" fork of the X.Org Server or if I somehow missed it... No, simply a vote of no confidence. It's highly unlikely to succeed long-term given the very limited experienced developers / resources and none of the major Linux stakeholders (companies) backing it.
We absolutely don't need corporate backing to have a fucking functional software. Hyprland is the main example of this, but this argument was just a smokescreen. He's also had no confidence about Enrico actually delivering (or at least trying to), but let's turn back a little bit
https://archive.is/lKVGF - 13 June 2024 at 09:51 AM - Positive report, marking that Enrico is building his automated testing suite
https://archive.is/zS2bY - 22 July 2024 at 12:11 PM - Positive report, to the point of almost glazing Enrico with this line: Open-source developer Enrico Weigelt has in recent months taken to near single-handedly maintain and further enhance the aging X.Org Server codebase
https://archive.ph/4SG1t - 1 January 2025 at 11:53 AM - Neutral report, about Enrico being one of the notable people around progress of X.Org...
Gee I wonder, where is this lack of confidence that Enrico simply is not capable of going through alone, because there's actually nothing of note if we were to backtrack to the previous articles about Enrico.
About Freedesktop removing the commits... It's just pathetic. Imagine Enrico's work merged throughout almost 2 years, which surely mustve been checked, approved and upstream with maintai.. I'm sorry, repo gatekeepers full intent at that time that it was actually functional and good, as for the copyright and ownership, it was almost 2 YEARS of shit being STALE, and I think that if some one of those RH fuckers asked Enrico, this could've been resolved amicably. Do you really think they care about that? Nope. It's clear that the code is not "bad" per se, it's just that they've deemed Enrico as persona non grata, and everything that he did needs to go.
As for the so-called breakage, https://archive.is/absTh#note_2801285 - It's clear that they've wanted to get rid of him, but they wanted to do it with the angle of Enrico being incompetent, but take a look here, the entire fucking randr saga is shitshow meant to paint him in bad light, but they didn't think that there were actually people defending him.
Take what you want, but to me, the intent was clear - Make his fork and effort less palatable for normies, that don't know nuances of the whole story...
I'm sorry, but I'm going a bit more nuclear on Michael's behaviour here, so as this is just my own 2 cents so I'm marking this as offtopic:
Michael actually doesn't think, he's actually posting what he thinks he's allowed to think, because god forbid, he'll say something as spicy as Lunduke in one of his articles and most of his corporate contacts will disappear, along with all the hardware/corporate support that's being donated/lend for testing behind the scenes... As for his programming ability, His benchmark suite is subpar at best, that you have to manually adjust before running anything, it's as if it was written by someone else and He's just trying to make it work... As for reporting, He doesn't even read properly the code that's he's reporting on, he's mostly parrotting the people behind that actually trying to for example put a cohesive message about the functionality on a mailing list, and it shows, because Michael tries to condense those messages and it doesn't work, there are always people are correcting him in the comments, it's actually shocking that he's got an audience this big to slip so much mistakes throughout the years and years of him going sometimes absolutely wrong to the point of the article being taken of the website and then posted again like it's nothing. There's clear GNOME + Wayland bias in reporting, but that's normal these days, even if GNOME is irrelevant as DE at large, it just brings clicks.
Well, this article broke the camels straw, because it clearly shows the bias, he was asked to write something like that and he stalled for time, but was probably pressed about it by the Freedesktop and RH psychos...
If this post was too aggressive, moderators can remove it, I specifically wanted to say everything without censoring myself...
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