On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:50 AM, Daniel Pittman <[email protected]> wrote:
--
X Windows is the Iran-Contra of graphical user interfaces: a tragedy of
political compromises, entangled alliances, marketing hype, and just plain
greed. X Windows is to memory as Ronald Reagan was to money.
   -- The Unix Haters Handbook

That's a quote?  I thought there is no such thing as "X Windows", from
http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/man/man7/X.7.html:

The X.Org Foundation requests that the following names be used when
referring to this software:

X
X Window System
X Version 11

X Window System, Version 11
X11

Note that "X Windows" is not listed.

PS: your posting had a reply-to of
"[email protected]" which
i didn't notice when sending this mail which gave me an all so hateful reply:
Recipient address rejected: rimspace.net (state 14).

grrr...

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