Peter Kruse <[email protected]> writes:
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?
That is indeed a quote.
[...]
The X.Org Foundation requests that the following names be used when
referring to this software:
The relevant requester would be The Open Group, given the time the book in
question was written.
[...]
Note that "X Windows" is not listed.
You could, I think, direct your complaints to Don Hopkins here.
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).
Why, indeed. That is a legitimate bit of hate, as a whole set of software
politely corrected my mis-entered data into something nicely broken.
Daniel
--
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
