Question about the future of Xorg

[Robert Funnell]

On 2025-06-22 11:42, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM Alan Coopersmith
> <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
>> On 6/21/25 12:49, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>>> While I appreciate all the discussion that was generated, remember my
>>> initial question.
>>>
>>> At the end of the day somebody needs to do the work in order for Xorg
>>> to keep working as it currently does.
>>>
>>> So far not a single developer from the Xorg project has stepped up.
>> Remember you mailed the "X.Org user support and discussion" mailing list and
>> not the developers mailing list.  But even so, the developers from the Xorg
>> project are working on Xorg, we're not here to perform for you
> Do you understand that the purpose of an article is not the amusement
> of the writer?
>
> The purpose of my article was to inform *the public*.
>
>> (Not to mention many of us have employers who require that media contacts
>>    go through our work press relations staff, and that we not engage in
>>    outside interviews without that.)
> Are you telling me that your employee is forbidding you from engaging
> with citizen journalists from the open source community?
>
> You can just say that, and that's what I will report.

He did not say his employer [not 'employee'], he said some employers.

I would guess that you've just thrown away whatever chance you had of 
getting cooperation from the developers. (Is 'citizen journalist' a way 
of saying 'unaccredited journalist'?)

I'm not a developer, just a lurking long-time user, so not very newsworthy.

- Robert