X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Jim Gettys


David Dawes

While Dawes explained this as an attempt to make sure the XFree86 developers get their due credit (apparently in response to the Xouvert fork), the decision was contested in the XFree86 community, notably by Jim Gettys and Keith Packard, and the dissenters subsequently forked the project into the X.Org Server.

Xrdb

The original version of xrdb was written by Jim Gettys and later rewritten by Bob Scheifler and Phil Karlton.



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