From: Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>
Subject: Re: how to find out methods for tramp?
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:57:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rjvg8dvtry.fsf@zuse.dina.kvl.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200206210942.g5L9gIO20483@aztec.santafe.edu> (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 21 Jun 2002 03:42:18 -0600 (MDT)")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Actually, if you ask the X Consortium then `X Windows' is not a proper
> name for the `X Window System' (see X(1)).
>
> I suspect that pressure from Microsoft had to do with making them
> state that position. So I think that by doing this we cater to
> Microsoft rather than to the real wishes of the X developers.
That was the official position of the X developers long before
Microsoft had any idea they would eventually produce a window system.
"It is a window system called X, not a system called X windows."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-21 9:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-17 16:42 how to find out methods for tramp? Robert J. Chassell
2002-06-17 17:17 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-06-17 18:19 ` Miles Bader
2002-06-19 2:23 ` Richard Stallman
2002-06-19 13:24 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-06-19 15:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-06-19 15:46 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-06-19 15:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-06-19 17:15 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-06-20 11:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-06-20 13:17 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-06-20 13:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-06-21 9:42 ` Richard Stallman
2002-06-21 9:57 ` Per Abrahamsen [this message]
2002-06-21 13:25 ` Miles Bader
2002-06-18 16:29 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-06-18 16:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-06-18 17:45 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-06-19 5:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-06-19 10:05 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-06-19 12:32 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-06-19 12:45 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-06-19 14:28 ` Robert J. Chassell
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