From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: APOP support in movemail
Date: 10 Nov 2003 14:33:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5d6c05oww.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1AJBau-000UNaC@rattlesnake.com>
"Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com> writes:
> The X Consortium 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
>
> Please respect their decision.
[...]
> You may respect the decision of the US trade mark office but I do
> not.
You may not respect the X Consortium's wishes, but others do.
> I used the word `Windows' before and still do to refer to X10 and X11
> when talking with people for whom these are the salient window
> systems. It is misleading for me to do otherwise.
There is no sense in butchering up communications with everybody else
just to placate your own idiosyncratic choice of words.
I consider the creators and maintainers of the system to be a better
reference with regard to what it is called than you.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-10 13:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-04 6:14 APOP support in movemail Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-04 6:34 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-11-05 5:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-05 20:50 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-11-06 9:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-06 12:33 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-11-08 2:16 ` Richard Stallman
2003-11-08 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-09 1:03 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-11-09 6:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-09 12:43 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-11-09 13:01 ` David Kastrup
2003-11-09 22:58 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-11-10 5:51 ` Karl Eichwalder
2003-11-10 6:18 ` Miles Bader
2003-11-10 12:56 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-11-10 13:33 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2003-11-10 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-09 17:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-06 12:45 ` Jason Rumney
2003-11-07 1:00 ` Richard Stallman
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