XLIBRE PAGE REMOVED FROM ARCH WIKI

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[AutoMod] action=keep R:8 E:7 N:3 C:5 | The post is somewhat civil but leans into frustration and a lack of constructive engagement with the deletion rationale.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2294792
Thread discussing this just got deleted, it should be obvious now that this is never getting fixed nor are they going to give a reason why it's not allowed other than vague references to the about page of Xlibre



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This Alad "fellow" has been talking on his wiki's talk page about this and has basically justified the whole thing with references to XLibre's "About us" page.



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So far, he has not mentioned anything anywhere about what on the 'About us' page he finds distasteful or worthy of deletion. Just references to it and Arch Linux's "Reputation". Reminder: arch linux's wiki also provides detailed instructions on pirating and emulating video games, and no changes have been made to that for years (nor should there be).

There was a thread discussing it, now deleted without reason. There's also a talk page asking for third party arbitration, expect this to get shot down since it's clear this is another command from above.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ArchWiki_talk:Requests#Request_for_arbitration_regarding_Xlibre_page_deleted_for_political_reasons


If you want to know the kind of "Angry chud language" the page had before its deletion, here's a snapshot of it:
https://web.archive.org/web/20260417133903/https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2294792

Entirely people being civil and attempting to pretend Alad is acting in good faith. Thread deleted anyway. Also several of these users are now banned without reason.

Also here's the talk page for Alad. Every attempt to discuss it with Alad or get clarification gets closed/deleted.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/User_talk:Alad

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ArchWiki:Maintenance_Team
They're not even considered an active wiki maintainer.

Reminder, the whole thing is because XServer was maintained by Red Hat, which is owned and run by IBM. IBM and Red Hat are full on leftist organization now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrfVIbXKqtg

And 5 days ago, they settled a smaller suit for DEI practices

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVueCw001AQ

IBM and Red Hat are still a full on DEI organization.

The reason IBM's DEI is relevant here is that Wayland is pushed as a DEI project with DEI devs. They want to kill X completely. So maintainers who want to keep X and update it and run their own updates, are a threat to DEI infiltration within open source

>I will not explain the situation because even I am aware that I am the problem and have no reasonable basis.


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The Code of Conduct is for users of Arch, not for anyone an Arch user might care to mention.
Misapplied use of CoC, and the section he cites even says:
>respect [others] and their views, even if you disagree with them. When you do find yourself disagreeing; counter the idea or the argument, rather than engage in ad hominem attacks.
Alad didn't counter ideas here.

They're an admin. Which is basically "We're the boss fuck you", they didn't even log in for upwards of a month beforehand before they just did this.

If you want my opinion: They're the fall guy. There are commands coming from up above and they're using this little wiki admin who doesn't interact with the page anyway as the face of it. The actual actors get to hide in the shadows and find other ways to manipulate the project. Start archiving the wiki, now. It's XLibre today but it could be Grub2 once systemd-boot gets attestation, TPM, and verified ID support.

Linux is a corporate-controlled project now and they don't like any opposition to their goals. Mentioning systemd or Wayland in a negative manner in most Linux spaces online will see you branded as a Nazi by an army of useful idiots.

Funniest part: If they had just let the Xlibre project owner have his temper tantrum on the freedesktop.org's wiki pages way back in the day and make his fork in peace, nobody would know about it. The knowledge of XLibre stems directly from freedesktop.org's attempts to slander, destroy, delete, and remove him from any and all projects associated with GNOME or RedHat. He's banned on github, he's banned on freedesktop.org, he's banned on literally every corporate wiki including the X11 wiki, Ubuntu wiki, and mentioning XLibre on Ubuntu or Debian's mailing list is an instant ban. Youtube, when googling X11, now displays videos discussing the XLibre controversy over configuring X11 or even XWayland.

This is why I know the attempts to blacklist XLibre came from a corporate command instead of being grassroots: no individual outrage campaign would fall for the Streisand effect this hard. This is 100% a corporate mandate from above trying to move the needle a little bit ending in a huge overreaction which popularized their enemy. Corporations cannot help themselves and RedHat as well as Freedesktop.org are part of the largest corporation in open source. There is no "sensible center" to letting corporations walk all over you.
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