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Re:X410 – X Server for Windows 10 by oefrha on Saturday April 18, 2020 @03:33AM (#22905988)
> I do believe there is a spirit of open source. Like, if everyone in the world behaved the “worst” they could while fulfilling all legal obligations, nothing would be functional at all anywhere.

Yeah, tell me about it, did I fail to mention I actually write widely used open source software, as opposed to the original complainer whose profile indicates little open source activity?

> In that vein, I hope they do contribute upstream where it makes sense to, at the very minimum, like applicable bug fixes.

And where’s the evidence that they aren’t already doing so? Where’s even the evidence that X410 is repackaging? I don’t know either way, but gp just started trashing the software because they sell licenses for 50 bucks a pop, which is not evidence for anything.

Re:X410 – X Server for Windows 10 by jchw on Saturday April 18, 2020 @05:17AM (#22906385)
I never made an endorsement of gp, I just took your remarks at face value (but not out of context.) It’s all conjecture anyways, but if I were a user reading that page I wouldn’t have gotten the impression this was a fork of something I could get for free. We don’t really know anything. For all we know it could be written entirely from scratch; an X server from scratch is really not outside the realm of possibility (it would probably be pointless though.)