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Re:Wayland on NetBSD – Trials and Tribulations by Jasper_ on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @04:47AM (#24625391)
Sure they did -- the old guard of Daniel Stone, Peter Hutterer, Adam Jackson, even Kristian Hoegsberg, they were all Xorg hackers before Wayland was a thing, and only a few had ever worked at Red Hat.

X.org doesn't really have maintainers, ever since Adam Jackson stepped away as release manager a few years ago. Alan Coopers it merges security patches, but most device driver support is handled in the lower levels now.

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Re:Wayland on NetBSD – Trials and Tribulations by washbear on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @04:59AM (#24625434)
the core difference now is that Sun and tens of other unix vendors are dead so there's less competing commercial influences to the Linux crowd involved in maintaining this stuff.

note that Alan Coopersmith is paid by Oracle to work on Solaris.

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