Something on a much smaller scale was attempted a few months ago. Some board members (while the two veteran board members who helped set up the new X.org foundation more than a decade ago, were not present) wanted to change the corporate membership limit of the board from 2/8 to something higher. This was a move that would've only benefited intel and red hat.
If I hadn't stepped in, they probably would've continued down this path. The resulting "discussion" downplayed my logic and statements, to the point where some people claimed that they no longer wished to discuss this topic with yours truly... But the drop or increase of the limit was of course never mentioned again.
As for why i bring this up here: mjg59 happily joined the shitthrowing contest against radeonhd, which at that point was a political struggle between AMD+SuSE versus ATI+redhat. This never had anything to do with creating the best possible driver, writing the best possible and most maintainable code, and furthering the linux desktop as much as possible. The ATI+redhat side showed an extreme lack of scruples, and was caught doing several very nasty things.
This is why i am so critical of mjg59s current spell of allergic reactions against linux and the linux foundation. When he did not deem himself on the receiving side of such actions, he happily joined in and happily dished out as well. And this makes me wonder what agenda mjg59 is really pushing today.
This is not to say that i disagree with his stance on what the linuxfoundation just pulled, quite the opposite, I just wonder why he is so active here all of a sudden.
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Re: Great catch.
Date: 2016-01-22 11:01 am (UTC)If I hadn't stepped in, they probably would've continued down this path. The resulting "discussion" downplayed my logic and statements, to the point where some people claimed that they no longer wished to discuss this topic with yours truly... But the drop or increase of the limit was of course never mentioned again.
As for why i bring this up here: mjg59 happily joined the shitthrowing contest against radeonhd, which at that point was a political struggle between AMD+SuSE versus ATI+redhat. This never had anything to do with creating the best possible driver, writing the best possible and most maintainable code, and furthering the linux desktop as much as possible. The ATI+redhat side showed an extreme lack of scruples, and was caught doing several very nasty things.
This is why i am so critical of mjg59s current spell of allergic reactions against linux and the linux foundation. When he did not deem himself on the receiving side of such actions, he happily joined in and happily dished out as well. And this makes me wonder what agenda mjg59 is really pushing today.
This is not to say that i disagree with his stance on what the linuxfoundation just pulled, quite the opposite, I just wonder why he is so active here all of a sudden.
Luc Verhaegen.