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From: Alastair Hogge <agh@riseup.net>
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Subject: Re: New fork of X.org xserver
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2025 03:32:37 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:27:57 +0200, Marco Moock wrote:

> On 06.06.2025 16:38 Uhr Alastair Hogge wrote:
> 
>> this morning, Redhat employees banned me from the freedesktop.org
>> gitlab infrastructure - so censored all my work (not just on Xorg).
>> They killed my account, my git repos, my tickets in Xorg and closed all
>> my merge requests. And then making fun on social media about it.
>> 
>> They fired the shot that's heared around the world.
>> 
>> So much for freedesktop.org being "independent" and embracing freedom.
> 
> Isn't that the same that happens on the systemd stuff?

Hmmm perhaps.

>> My most evil heresies probably were:
>> 
>> a) forking Xorg and making *actual progress*
> 
> IIRC Redhat wan't to kill X11, but why? They can simply stop providing
> it in their operating systems and don't have to deal with it anymore.
> 
>> b) talking to a journalist whose name must not be spoken in many other
>>    Redhat/IBM tax evasion outlets, like GNOME (they're also banning
>>    honorable long time contributors for just mentioning that name)
> 
> Can you give it?

https://nitter.net/LundukeJournal/status/1930727192964514137
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwaaSatk0pI

>> I'm expecting to be banned from whole freedesktop.org mail system, too.
>> Excommunication unfortunately had become a common thing in the
>> so-called "free software" world - GNOME is just one of many examples.
>> So if you don't hear anymore from me on freedesktop.org lists, you know
>> what's going on.
> 
> What happens if you join again using another name?

It probably gets boring.



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