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by bmacho 5 days ago
KDE is not a fork, nevertheless KDE was building on X11 heavily and now they are trying to kill it.

So while technically not the same story as if it was a direct fork of X11, practically they have the 'obligation' to support X11 indefinitely. KDE trying to kill X11 too is the same exact EEE that you mentioned as a sad story in regads of KHTML.
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bigyabai 5 days ago
KDE is not obliged to support X11 any more than they're obliged to support JACK1 or sysvinit. They're all in maintenance mode, KDE couldn't embrace or extend them even if they wanted to.

KHTML is tragic because it had willing developers working for the public good. Jack1 and X11 are not tragic, because their developers were already drafting transition plans to depreciate their libraries.

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