2D is not (repeat, not) expendable (was: Re: Xegl lives!)

[Jon Smirl]

No one is going to take away the current Xorg server. People who don't
want to spend $10 upgrading their hardware also don't need animated,
composited, sub-pixel rendered displays either. Just keep running the
server you have right now. It works and it is free.

All software has leading and trailing edge users. The people you
describe are trailing edge users. New large desktop graphics
development is aimed at leading edge users.

It makes no sense to target a new $1M+ software development effort at
Indonesians that can't afford $10. Those people are not the target of
Xgl. Xgl is targeted at office desktop Linux and some home use.

As time passes Xgl will become a trailing edge product. At that point
it will be ready for the people you describe.

A friend of mine runs Microsoft Thailand. He says his biggest problem
with getting higher Windows usage is wiring the villages for
electricity.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl at gmail.com