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Re:Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclu... by ThatPlayer on Thursday April 25, 2024 @06:46AM (#40155808)
Yes, if Red Hat wanted to, there wouldn't be nobody. Like you say, if Red Hat wanted to, they could hire those people to work on X11. Conversely if "Red Hat doesn't want to work on X11", then they wouldn't hire those developers, and now nobody wants to work on X11.
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Re:Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclu... by okasaki on Thursday April 25, 2024 @06:53AM (#40155857)
Right, so the problem isn't "nobody wants to work on X11", it's that "Red Hat management doesn't want to hire anybody to work on X11", and phrasing it as the former is extremely dishonest.
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Re:Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclu... by ThatPlayer on Thursday April 25, 2024 @07:05AM (#40155944)
Why is Red Hat the one who has to pay for development? Why not any other Linux contributor? Ubuntu, Google, AMD. They don't want to hire anybody to work on X11 either. Why not you? That's why it's "everybody doesn't want to pay for development", which is shortened to "nobody wants to".
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Re:Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclu... by Vilian on Thursday April 25, 2024 @07:32AM (#40156150)
actually ubuntu also paid people, but x11 is so fucked that was never enough, that's why google never used it, and why they adopted wayland in the chromeOS
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