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Redhat stands to lose their defacto control over X after the XLibre fork so they have to stop trying to kill it. Who would have thought that competition would make things better for everyone?

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Alan Coopersmith works at Oracle, on Solaris. I don't know of any effort to use Wayland on Solaris, so maintaining X really is their only option.

OTOH, RedHat seems happy to let X die.

I doubt they care too much. They probably just have customers with applications stuck on a legacy window system. And they pay for that maintenance.

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