Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 08:23:20 -0700
From: Bill Currie <bill AT taniwha DOT org>
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On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 12:26:39AM -0800, Matt Lewandowsky wrote:
> So, what of X Windows? Or is it just that "Windows" was tacked on to X? Or 
> OpenWindows? Just idle notes that the law is royally not right. (Skewed in 
> favor of the Goliaths rather than the Davids...)

It's not actually X Windows. The proper name is The X Window System (not
certain about the "The":). Microsoft can't touch `them' for two resons:
dissimilar enough (it's the X that's significant, not the windows) and X came
first anyway, I believe. (NOTE: IANAL)

Bill
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