Xfce4 developer on Xfce4.14: Dedoimedo interview

[Richard]

Comments of interest on Xfce4's near future.
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/interview-xfce.html

[polaca57]

"Olivier Fourdan, creator of the Xfce desktop and maintainer of the Xfwm window manager works for Red Hat"

That's bad. Very bad.

[polaca57]

Ever wonder why Linux distros are adopting systemd?
Answer: money
Motive: control and monopoly, hint: red-hat = next red-mond

Redhat

Revenue US$2.4 billion (2016)[3]
Operating income US$288.05 million (2016)[3]
Net income US$199.37 million (2016)[3]
Total assets US$4.155 billion (2016)[3]
Total equity US$1.334 billion (2016)[3]

[BitJam]

Who's your nemesis? Not on a personal level, more sort of dev style?

S: I don't have one in particular, but anybody using tabs instead of (4) spaces is eligible to be on the list.

[malspa]

Good stuff -- thanks for the link! I wonder if that Xfce developer has tried MX.

[Jerry3904]

"Olivier Fourdan, creator of the Xfce desktop and maintainer of the Xfwm window manager works for Red Hat"

That's bad. Very bad.

Have you ever looked at the list of kernel maintainers? I remember seeing a couple of years ago that something like 3/4 of the kernel development comes from commercial realm, the most work being contributed by Red Hat.

[cpoakes]

Not impressed with source in general.

[uncle mark]

Have you ever looked at the list of kernel maintainers? I remember seeing a couple of years ago that something like 3/4 of the kernel development comes from commercial realm, the most work being contributed by Red Hat.

Doesn't seem to bother Linus.

[Jerry3904]

What I meant

[asinoro]

Xfce…., etc = Gnome, now with the appearance of Librem 5, all the Unix derivatives which are based on C language will be finally unified.