[cardanome]

There is lots of work no ones wants to do in their free time. That is why you pay people money.

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.

[growse]

So with the plethora of people who care about progress and its success, and the army of people willing to work on it for a competitive wage, we should be seeing lots of activity on the project, right?

> 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.