[Desktop_architects] Re: Xgl controversey

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> And if Novell want an example of where this sort of thing has
> backfired before, I'll point out the wonderful Novell Linux Kernel
> Debugger, developed in-house behind closed doors, and never going to
> get merged into the mainline kernel as the community just didn't agree
> with it. Hopefully someone in Novell has learned from that.
> (considering someone has to spend a lot of time keeping NLKD up to
> date with newer kernels..)

This is probably a bad example.

Because there are plenty of reasons why something would not make it into
the kernel or any other project.  The fact that something is useful to
someone and is available for free does not mean that you want to
integrate, support and maintain it.

Miguel.