What's with the Trump-esque README?

[dataprolet]

Calling DEI "discriminatory" while stating the project is free of "any political activists groups" is just nonsensical. Opposing DEI is political.

It doesn't matter which country you're coming from, your political views, your race, your sex, your age

Also this is Diversity by definition. You're trying to oppose DEI and then have literally a DEI section right after it?

And what's with the "make X great again"? Referring to a Trump quote while also mirroring Trump's anti DEI policy is a really bad look for any supposedly "open" project.

Is this project really run by a bunch of people that are afraid of any form of anti-discrimination?

[cepelinas9000]

I know off topic, @dataprolet can you comment on this https://web.archive.org/web/20250624214542/https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/06/23/the-fascist-maggots/ ?

[dataprolet]

I don't know why I should or what this blog post has to do with this project.

[jesushrek]

Yea I also think removing that would be beneficial for the project.

Genuine question: why are you people seeing politics into everything? And why is this Trump-esque?! LMAO. Make something great again, is a simple sentence, again why are you intentionally seeing "Make America Great Again" into it from Trump's? You're clearly here for some drama and provocation. Grow the hell up.

[sskras]

@dataprolet opened 1 hour ago:

Opposing DEI is political.

No, not in my space.

Well, you're at least going to need a lot of high precision definitions on the subjective / individually perceptional matters (read: non-scientific in the strict sense) which you could outline here in a manner so clear and detailed, that everyone participant could measure the global (I dare to even say multidimensional) reality with no error.

Given that this happens, it could be possible to get the participants into voting about differing (even opposing) definitions. Of which a single one could win then. But it's going to be lengthy process, IMO, lasting for like 5y or more.

Measuring subjectivity precisely (metrologically, scientifically, exactly) so no error is left in is pretty hard, IMO.
(Saying this as an engineer)

TL;DR – define:political

[sskras]

@vajdao commented 5 minutes ago

And why is this Trump-esque?! LMAO. Make something great again, is a simple sentence, again why are you intentionally seeing "Make America Great Again" into it from Trump's?

My support here. Let's look at the slogan's origins – it dates back to 1979, and comes from the guy who started political career in the party which now is opposing Trump (even if later that guys switched to different party):
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_America_Great_Again#:~:text=%22Let's%20Make%20America%20Great%20Again,during%20his%201980%20presidential%20campaign.

"Let's Make America Great Again" (LMAGA) is a campaign slogan used by American politicians. It was first used by Ronald Reagan during his 1980 presidential campaign. [1]

The term was created in 1979[1] during a time in which the United States was suffering from a worsening economy at home marked by high unemployment and inflation.[2] Usually when the term is used, people use it as a reflection to the Presidency of Ronald Reagan.[3][4]

PS. It seemingly was also used by the Democrat candidate Bill Clinton circa 1992 a lot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_America_Great_Again#Bill_Clinton

@sskras nice thanks for clarifying this, then this also confirms the "issue" opener is totally clueless. I didn't dug myself deep into this though, because I go headlessly the moment I see stupid people around who's seeing politics into every fucking damn thing in order for some provocation and unnecesarry drama, because they're clearly narcistic.

[sskras]

@vajdao, IMO it's OK for people to have different perception than the others.
But putting it universal without globally precise substantiating should be a no-go in the world of engineering.
At least on the community wide scale.

I agree @sskras

[ToneyFoxxy]

Calling DEI "discriminatory" while stating the project is free of "any political activists groups" is just nonsensical. Opposing DEI is political.

DEI is political, also, this doesn't say free of politics, now does it?

It doesn't matter which country you're coming from, your political views, your race, your sex, your age

Also this is Diversity by definition. You're trying to oppose DEI and then have literally a DEI section right after it?

No, it's inclusion. Diversity means there are many types present, not that many types can be present. Either way, "DEI" doesn't own every concept implied by the term. DEI is a very specific set of politically motivated actions and policies.

And what's with the "make X great again"?

I can't speak for Metux, but he has been saying this long before he started XLibre officially. I believe this phrase serves two purposes; demonstrating an interest in improving the project regardless of opinions and to mock the leftists like you who try to crybully every OSS project in existence

Referring to a Trump quote while also mirroring Trump's anti DEI policy is a really bad look for any supposedly "open" project.

Is this project really run by a bunch of people that are afraid of any form of anti-discrimination?

DEI is discriminatory by it's very nature, that's why Metux is not allowing it to infect the project

[kkmzero]

Also this is Diversity by definition.

I'm glad you admitted it. People who complained before you and attacked XLibre didn't have backbone to admit that. Yes, this project is inclusive and accepts contributions from as much diverse group of people as you can imagine. The only difference I can think of is the implied request for keeping your politics at the door and being a professional. I know the political situation, especially in the US, is very heated but people here would like to focus on work. We have windows to open, we have pixels to color, we have buttons to push, we have applications to develop for our users. I don't know if I can simplify it more, I hope I answered your questions.

[xgui4]

TDS detected, opinion rejected

[xgui4]

Is this project really run by a bunch of people that are afraid of any form of anti-discrimination?

this is just some woke buzzword. anti-discrimination look like reverse dicrimination, what we shoud be looking for is equity of opportunity not equity of outcome aka communism

[xgui4]

Genuine question: why are you people seeing politics into everything? And why is this Trump-esque?! LMAO. Make something great again, is a simple sentence, again why are you intentionally seeing "Make America Great Again" into it from Trump's? You're clearly here for some drama and provocation. Grow the hell up.

this is just cause that perso have tds

[smj-cc]

In any event:

The XLibre project exists for a reason.

The reason stated by this fork's author is that Xorg deliberately stopped development, blocked all attempts at development on their systems, and then blocked the author of this fork, and all his code, and the code of others attempting development, from their systems.

Xorg did all of that for a reason.

While their reason for blocking development is likely an attempt to force everyone onto Wayland,
the reason stated by Xorg for excluding the author's participation, was explicitly DEI.

The Readme.md, rightly and properly details the need for this fork, and the reasons for it's existence.
To remove that, would be to attempt to edit history, and hide the truth.