Not parent, but I'd recommend you get a lay of the land and not trust rando's ramblings.
No one wanted to support it, not just Red Hat.
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2025/06/06/msg032...
It looks more like one maintainer, and it's really not clear if his problem was with corporate control, or if he just fell out with everybody.
So, it would be awesome if somebody would just go ahead and re-fork it removing just the controversial stuff.
Probably going to regret asking, but what is a "redskirt"?
> doesn't matter which country you're coming from, your politicial views, your race, your sex, your age, your food menu, whether you wear boots or heels, whether you're furry or fairy, Conan or McKay, comic character, a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri, or just an boring average person. Anybody's welcomed, who's interested in bringing X forward.
Whoh. So normally people who talk like this are far from "strong and stable", it's a call for "all lives matter". I wouldn't touch this racist heap.
[Edit] And redskirt is just a misogynistic play on Star Trek red shirts. This dev sounds delightful.
> I wouldn't touch this racist heap.
You are clearly unhinged. I don't know how to bring you back to sanity, but as the americans say, one cannot reason someone out of a position they have not reasoned themselves into.
I am perfectly fine.
I suspect you double down because you are so captured by your emotions that you cannot possibly admit the lapse in critical thinking. I predict going that path won't take you far on HN.
Ah yes, the "all lives matter" rebuttal.
No one wants to work on it.
And why wouldn't someone be happy working on X11? It is an open source project, it is high impact work. I would jump at it instantly if someone paid me a competitive wage to do it. Or honestly even a bit under my normal expectation. Not every person wants to work on some ego-driven rewrite of a rewrite. Some people are fine working with legacy code.
Also there is a counter example right above my post. Someone was so motivated to work on it, they even forked it: https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver
Granted the fork seems weirdly ideologically motivated but anyway, case in point.
> Give me an option to donate directly to X11 development and I am gonna support it.
> I would jump at it instantly if someone paid me a competitive wage to do it
You guys should meet up.