From owner-freebsd-security Thu May 30 7: 3:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from cithaeron.argolis.org (bgm-24-169-166-7.stny.rr.com [24.169.166.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B40CA37B403 for ; Thu, 30 May 2002 07:03:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cithaeron.argolis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cithaeron.argolis.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4UE2nDn076426; Thu, 30 May 2002 10:02:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from piechota@argolis.org) Received: from localhost (piechota@localhost) by cithaeron.argolis.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g4UE2nQh076423; Thu, 30 May 2002 10:02:49 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cithaeron.argolis.org: piechota owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 10:02:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Piechota To: Miguel Mendez Cc: Alexandr Kovalenko , FreeBSD Security Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:27.rc In-Reply-To: <20020530154851.A59516@energyhq.homeip.net> Message-ID: <20020530095557.O74408-100000@cithaeron.argolis.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 30 May 2002, Miguel Mendez wrote: > Oh, come on, if you want to be *that* picky, call it the X Window > System. It's very common to call it X Windows or simply X. Let's not > waste (more) time arguing on this. In the US (and probably elsewhere), our good friends at Microsoft trademarked (patented, peed on, whatever) the name "Windows" when used near computers and operating systems[0]. That's why you'll *never* see the X.org folks use that term, since Microsoft could sue for infringement or somesuch. The X.org FAQ are either X or The X Window System are appropriate. [0] The judge in the Lindows case recently said something along the line of "this trademark of such a generic term [Windows] should be reviewed". -- Matt Piechota To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message