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

David Gerard David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com>
Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:39:58 +0000


On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:30:55 -0700 (MST), Marc Aurele La France
<tsi@ualberta.ca> wrote:

> 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.


Doing so was why I wrote asking for pointers. However, if you have
them but don't feel the article deserves them, that's up to you and
XFree86.


> 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.


Where do you get this idea I interviewed Gettys?


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


That would be why I emailed to the XFree86 forum in the first place.
But thanks for your time anyway.


- d.