For those who do not know, Novell's Compiz was forked last year due to Novell's (possibly misunderstood, at least in retrospect) 'grip' on the project. This resulted in Beryl, which gained a lot of attraction and left Compiz a little behind, unless stability is accounted for as well.
Earlier this year, the two projects decided to converge again. The fruits of the merge can be seen in the video below.
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Francis
2007-06-22 18:56:22
The Beryl fork had absolutely nothing to do with Novell, the company (though I know you love believing things like this). Reveman has said that no-one from Novell has ever told him to do or not do anything in a certain way, and this wasn't even _ever_ raised as part of the argument from any Beryl guys. Nice of you to put words into their mouth though. Their argument was about him not accepting certain code changes etc.
> This resulted in Beryl, which gained a lot of attraction and left Compiz a little behind, unless stability is accounted for as well.
To clarify, it only "left it behind" in terms of additional plugins. Compiz was getting a lot more core changes (like real support for input actions during various transformations), and no big distros were adopting Beryl (Ubuntu thought of this, but the main developers were leaning towards Compiz), while Fedora and openSUSE etc had it.
Roy Schestowitz
2007-06-22 23:11:10
I followed the exchange of words very closely at the time. As the text says, it's a misunderstanding that was part of this. True, there was no real issue with Novell, just a perception.
As for Beryl, it received a lot more attention at some stage and its site even got vandalised by a Compiz guy as a result (twice, I think).
We still wonder if we should make and actively maintain a shame list (developer/employer) for the people who contaminate Linux the most with slop plagiarism
They've managed to trick some mainstream media into thinking they're "Tech" experts or "Social [Control] Media" gurus; nothing could be further from the truth
There are many Arch derivatives that do not rely on "viral" marketing in MElon's child porn-pushing social control media and are instead relying on real development, not slop
We approach the parts where we explain that the Application to the Court with Garrett's name on it was instead complaining about fair criticism of the combative law firm (irrelevant to any injunctions) as if it was impermissible to explain what it had done - and still does - to my wife and I
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Francis
2007-06-22 18:56:22
> This resulted in Beryl, which gained a lot of attraction and left Compiz a little behind, unless stability is accounted for as well.
To clarify, it only "left it behind" in terms of additional plugins. Compiz was getting a lot more core changes (like real support for input actions during various transformations), and no big distros were adopting Beryl (Ubuntu thought of this, but the main developers were leaning towards Compiz), while Fedora and openSUSE etc had it.
Roy Schestowitz
2007-06-22 23:11:10
As for Beryl, it received a lot more attention at some stage and its site even got vandalised by a Compiz guy as a result (twice, I think).