{"id":12189,"date":"2025-06-10T14:11:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T21:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=12189"},"modified":"2025-06-25T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T23:14:08","slug":"red-hat-freedesktop-go-into-mass-censorship-mode-over-xorg-fork-bans-dev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/red-hat-freedesktop-go-into-mass-censorship-mode-over-xorg-fork-bans-dev\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Hat & FreeDesktop Go Into Mass Censorship Mode over Xorg Fork, Bans Dev"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Red Hat and IBM are going way overboard trying to squash XLibre<\/a>, the X.Org fork. The fact they were sitting on thousands of code fixes and not incorporating them is pretty telling in that Red Hat was trying to kill X.Org in favor of their Wayland window manager. This is just another sign that Red Hat no longer respects the opensource, free software community, as well as how corporations use their contributions to coopt these foundations. Consequently, I’ve noticed some of the coverage around this has been propaganda<\/a> as if written by Red Hat, as a lot of tech reporters are kind of compromised by Red Hat and some of the megacorps in the opensource, free software space due to advertising and future access. But the free software community prevails all because the source code is available and able to be distributed when updated because of the software licenses. Going forward, I’m going to prioritize running XLibre over Wayland on my machines as I steer clear of IBM, Red Hat and their projects like Fedora, Flatpak… Also worth pointing out, good programmers in the open source community won’t like this behavior, with the more proficient ones leaving these organizations, kind of what seems to have happened with Flatpak<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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