Post #3473339

2026-06-22 13:23 UTC

@LariscusObscurus@wien.rocks I think, knowing a bit the maintainer, they would do it within 5 min, spend 10 min on the mailing-list for an announcement, and done. The reason I do a blog post, it's because I have the feeling some more things are at play than just renaming a bad legacy name for a repo: it might have deeper financial partnership and relation under the hood, maybe between RHLE, VFX Studios and Wacom.

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@Natanox@chaos.social 2026-06-22 14:08

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org @LariscusObscurus@wien.rocks Heh, classic… yeah, especially now that Linux finally gets some numbers Wacom has all the incentives to uphold any influence they have built. The managers would call it "ensuring return of investment". Depending on the amount of influence it might even be easier to convince all the other parties who interface with libwacom that, from now on, they have to also add a new "libgraphpen" or something similar; moving everything except wacom devices to a new library.

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@whot@floss.social 2026-06-22 23:44

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org @LariscusObscurus@wien.rocks > it might have deeper financial partnership and relation under the hood, maybe between RHLE, VFX Studios and Wacom. A definitive statement for clarity here: that is not the case. The naming is classic developer naming (influenced by the Wacom engineers creating or being involved with these repos from early on). Wacom was synonymous for graphics tablets in the same way as e.g. Australians say esky instead of ice box.

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