Reply to post: Re: The power of open-source

X.Org is now pretty much an ex-org: Maintainer declares the open-source windowing system largely abandoned

Jason Hindle

Re: The power of open-source

“ I would just leave the code lying around somewhere. Someone is bound to pick it up in the future and restart development.”

I think MSFT perhaps already did. It’s how they provide enhanced mode access to Hyper-V hosted Ubuntu (complete pain in the arse to get working with 20.04, btw, but rather nice once working).

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