Context: X11Libre is a fork of X11 aiming at preserving the X Server (fair enough, right?). One of the creators got permanently banned from freedesktop.org for apparently violating the Code of Conduct (no info on that, they just blame Red Hat), see themselves as hunted by both Big Tech and “toxic elements” who “took over the X11 project” They want to “make X great again”.
The issue about their highly political README (which they wrote due to the original project “becoming too political”, lol) also contains the usual red flags like transphobia. https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/issues/40
Honestly, I’m fully on board of this development. It might be useful for those distros that can’t move to Wayland and, more importantly, can keep the developers far from everything else.
Lol, how will they get any contributions if they explicitly say that trans girls are not welcome? You know who run the internet?
Furries?
I don’t think they will get contributions. But they will not bother the rest for a bit
The project will either die through lack of interest or over-availability of cringe. There’s no way for it to succeed with this MAGA nonsense and threats plastered all over it, they’d have a hard time finding enough devs even without alienating everyone except Fox News viewers. Meanwhile they’ll feel confirmed in their worldview due to all the rightful criticism flooding in.
If the project survives this initial phase of antipathy we’ll probably get years of cringe from it.