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Who made Red Hat the arbiter of when xorg should end?
I mean, sure they're a major Linux vendor but their market is servers with hardly any foothold in the desktop market. It would be more interesting to see how long Debian, Ubuntu or Arch will keep xorg alive.
Nobody. And it's not like Red Hat runs the X.Org Foundation, either, at most they have one seat on the board. Development will continue.
By whom? Red Hat is pretty much the only one supporting X.Org so that's why. Development will not really continue because there will be nobody to do the development.