Re: New fork of X.org xserver

On 06.06.2025 16:38 Uhr Alastair Hogge wrote:

this morning, Redhat employees banned me from the freedesktop.org
gitlab infrastructure - so censored all my work (not just on Xorg).
They killed my account, my git repos, my tickets in Xorg and closed
all my merge requests. And then making fun on social media about it.
 
They fired the shot that's heared around the world.
 
So much for freedesktop.org being "independent" and embracing freedom.

Isn't that the same that happens on the systemd stuff?

My most evil heresies probably were:
 
a) forking Xorg and making *actual progress*

IIRC Redhat wan't to kill X11, but why? They can simply stop providing
it in their operating systems and don't have to deal with it anymore.

b) talking to a journalist whose name must not be spoken in many other
   Redhat/IBM tax evasion outlets, like GNOME (they're also banning
   honorable long time contributors for just mentioning that name)

Can you give it?

I'm expecting to be banned from whole freedesktop.org mail system,
too. Excommunication unfortunately had become a common thing in the
so-called "free software" world - GNOME is just one of many examples.
So if you don't hear anymore from me on freedesktop.org lists, you
know what's going on.

What happens if you join again using another name?