Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 7th Oct 2006 17:48 UTC, submitted by J.
"Compiz is the compositing window manager that works on top of Xgl or AIGLX to enable Desktop Effects. Recently, a community developer named Quinn Storm announced that she would start a Compiz-based fork project called 'Beryl', citing frustration with Novell regarding getting her code fixes accepted into the Compiz upstream source tree. We called Compiz/Xgl maintainer David Reveman to get his side of the story."
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2005-10-06
What struck me is that they start complaining that things have been one sided and then proceed to do a completely one sided show themselves. Sure they were coming from the other side, and it was their intention primarily to get David's side across, but if they're so concerned about being even handed you'd think they'd at least ask someone from the Beryl side to comment before sending it out. Also when a show related to Novell interviews someone who works for Novell they might want to preface it with a declaration that this is probably not unbiased reporting.
Aside from that the "why can't we just have one really good compiz" thing sort of annoyed me. One thing I like about Linux is choice. I can choose Gnome or KDE, Firefox or Konqueror (I chose KDE on the last question), and now if I want Beryl or Compiz. Having more than one program do the same sort of thing allows people to choose the one they like. Having only one "really great" option allows everyone to hate the same thing, in equal measure, but for different reasons.