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

[Marc Aurele La France]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, David Gerard wrote:
> 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.

So what you're saying here is that you are not willing to research XFree86's 
involvement in the X world to the same depth as you did for the newly formed 
X.Org Foundation's.  Does that sound right to you?  It doesn't to me.

I will not contribute more directly to this effort for the same reason you 
shouldn't interview Gettys.  If you wish this entry to be impartial, it 
behooves you to make it so on your own.

But, as it currently stands, your document is horribly slanted towards the 
X-du-jour.

Marc.

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