The X Windows system consists of an X server and client libraries communicating via a network transparent protocol.
The X window system is a protocol, like FTP. Maybe you mean XFree86 or X.Org? A X window system implementation is infact part of the GNU system; which I do not know since none really work very well with the Hurd. FTP is part of every GNU work station, but the procotol, like X, isn't developed by the FSF. There is a difference between assembling a system, and developing its components. The FSF certainly does not develop X11. Neither does the FSF develop FTP, SMTP, Gopher, HTTP, .... I fail to see what protocols have to do with this. Guess what: manifest or not, hero worship or not, Richard has not been responsible for all of what is subsumed into a GNU system. And if you actually believe that, you are being spectacularly dense. Just read all the copyright notices. As the head for the GNU project he is responsible for it. He might not have written every single line, but he is the head of the GNU project, whether you like it or not. And that is what St. IGNUcius says. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
