Question about the future of Xorg

[Vladimir Dergachev]

On Sun, 22 Jun 2025, Felipe Contreras wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM Alan Coopersmith
> <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> (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?

The agreements companies ask people to sign have gotten more and more 
restrictive over the years. I would not be surprised if at some point I'll 
see a lawyer draft an agreement prohibiting any activity outside of work, 
including fishing or gym exercise.

A lot of that is probably unenforceable, but I doubt even the lawyers 
know for sure which is which. A good idea is to discuss with your employer 
and get them to pare down particularly restrictive bits.

As for Xorg, as long as you can download source code from the Internet it 
does not go away.

Get the source, compile it, see if it works. If there are problems, solve 
them and share the code back if your agreements allow it.

best

Vladimir Dergachev

>
> You can just say that, and that's what I will report.
>
> -- 
> Felipe Contreras
>