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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 01:21:29 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:50:43 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:

> On 2025-04-25, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:06:53 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:
>>
>>> I understand the problems with X11, and supporting legacy, but you
>>> can't just throw out decades of work and break it because its hard.
>>
>> Somebody has to come along and offer to do the work. If nobody does,
>> then yes, the existing developers are quite justified in saying “that’s
>> not worth it, let’s just drop it”.
> 
> But they ARE doing work.  They're creating new stuff that lack some
> degree of compatibility with the old.  This is the problem, devs work on
> what the want to work on, not what people need.

They’re doing it on their own time and with their own resources, after 
all. What right do you have to tell them what to do?