Originally posted by oiaohm
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None of this has anything to do with the X.Org domain (whose DNS is hosted by fd.o). The domain nearly lapsed a while ago because of history which predates the X.Org Foundation - the domain was personally owned by someone who no longer wanted to be involved but also repeatedly refused to transfer the domain until the last second. The Foundation board spent years upon years trying to resolve it, and it was only the bad publicity which forced the issue forward. They were very proactive about it and had a fallback domain registered in place and made sure all the services worked with the new domain, in the very worst case that the old domain continued to be held hostage from them through no fault of their own.
None of this had anything to do with 'failing to pay the bill'. They can easily pay the bill, in the same way that they manage to pay the stipend for EVoC every year, and manage to fund travel to XDC for developers who could not otherwise attend.
I have no idea why you are so committed to making up complete nonsense to slander X.Org.
-daniel (primary fd.o admin since 2004, former X.Org board member)
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