[forum] Help needed for Wikipedia article on X Window System

[David Gerard]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:38:45 -0700 (MST), Marc Aurele La France
<tsi@ualberta.ca> wrote:

> Translation:  The fork's overwhelming thrust is Linux & Cygwin, with a few
> *BSD'ers thrown in for good measure.  Gone are design considerations that
> would facilitate X on all existing platforms, commercial & otherwise.
> Already, the OS-independent framework the fork inherited from XFree86 is
> being consciously eroded and/or left to bit rot.  This is due to the Linux
> world currently being seen as most lucrative.
> The rest of this doesn't need further comment.


This would be why I wrote asking for input, you see. The idea is an
encyclopedia article, rather than "the media", so it does need to be
of a higher standard.

If you (or anyone) have pointers to reference material third parties
would find it hard to argue with, and that would stand up in a number
of years, it would help get your point across. Or, since it's
Wikipedia, you could edit it yourself. Wikipedia has a reputation as
"the encyclopedia Slashdot wrote", and that's probably not actually a
good thing; the cure is probably to widen the contributor intake.


- d.