This is the childish actions of a whiny technofascists that's gotten himself banned for cause. Note the open bigotry right in the README. For some odd reason he feels the need to make an anti-DEI statement. Treat it like the far-right dog whistle it is.
this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2025
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Yuuuup. Even the X developers all moved on to Wayland work.
"Together we'll make X great again!" together with a Telegramm channel link
I pass.
The readme doesn't inspire confidence.
Yeah that's a bunch of red flags right off the bat.
Isn't X effectively dead anyway, and most people moving to Wayland?
It's not just effectively dead. A lot of people, who were core contributors to the project, declared it impossible to maintain, in modern scenarios. Does it still work? Most of the time. But it comes at a massive cost of having to deal with 40 years of tech debt, and band-aid decisions.
But even if you forget about that, this readme is a sign of major mental illness
Isn’t X effectively dead anyway, and most people moving to Wayland?
Yeah, XWayland will be around for quite some time but X11 / Xorg Server as stand-alone display server is pretty much dead.
DEI is a discriminatory policy for a repo? Granted I'm no programmer, but that feels like a made up "problem" to be solving for something like X.org. The README looks like the ravings of a spurned ex employee or someone that may need some professional help.
how would dei work with volunteer projects like online foss projects anyway?
I mean, whatever literally works.
Ok. This is interesting, if a bit conspiracy-theory-ish:
moles from BigTech, are boycotting any substantial work on Xorg, in order to destroy the project, to elimitate competition of their own products. Classic "embrace, extend, extinguish" tactics.
Right after first journalists began covering the planned fork Xlibre, on June 6th 2025, Redhat employees started a purge on the Xlibre founder's gitlab account on freedesktop.org: deleted the git repo, tickets, merge requests, etc,
I wonder what the story behind this is. Why would anyone want to hinder progress on X11?
I think it's more about the politics, not X11 itself. Right wing people are getting harassed as always.
They wouldn't get harassed if they minded their own business and stopped harassing others.
Well I'm sure there are a lot of right wing movements and some of them are aggressive but I personally only mind people who don't respect others and I haven't found a difference between left wing and right wing people in terms of that. However left leaning ones do it in disguise and lie about themselves so my choice was obvious. I value honesty too after all.
Being left or right doesn't make you good or bad. There are plenty of reasonable right-wing groups. However few to none of them identify as right wing. The Democrats in the United States for instance. A staunchly, solidly right-wing group. That most people somehow mistakenly think are left wing.
No, the people desperate to identify themselves with vagaries such as left or right. Almost without exception are some of the worst most horrible people you'll ever meet. Only trying to deny the failures of their ideas, or deflect from the horrible things they want to do to others. Leninists and fascists are both Prime examples of this.
Anyone who talks or acts like DEI is a problem is a clown who deserves to be ridiculed. Its possible to have substantive nuanced criticism of DEI. Left or right. But DEI isn't the problem. The people whining about it typically are.
Wait, what? How did politics come into this? Did they talk about DEI in the README? I didn't read the whole thing.
That would be disappointing.
It's in the readme. Several comments above this and around this all mention it. You can search for it and you will find it.
Dei really shouldn't be considered politics of course. It should just be a part of being a decent person. But those who persecute others or don't care about the persecution of others at least. Always have to put on a show to make everything about them. How acknowledging traditionally excluded people is somehow an attack or imposition on them
Readme literally was changed to have the phrase "make x great again". I wonder what got this person to fork it.