Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 14:08:24 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Nils Holland <nils@daemon.tisys.org> Cc: Well Educated <nospam@nospam.nospam.net>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: typo in FreeBSD-SA-02:27.rc Message-ID: <3CF7E648.6D968AC5@mindspring.com> References: <3CF78D95.C96C85D1@nospam.nospam.net> <20020531161024.A616@daemon.tisys.org>
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Nils Holland wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 04:49:57PM +0200, Well Educated stood up and spoke: > > "X Windows" - what is it, "XP Windows" or "Windows XP" maybe? > > Let's use true terms to the things. > > Hmm, I've never been someone who likes endless debates about small bits and > pieces which have no effect at all on, well, anything. In context of the > Security Advisory, I don't think that writing "X Windows" instead of "X" or > "X Window System" introduces a security hole, or makes it hard to > understand what the Advisory is talking about. Therefore, I guess most > people have better things to do than to worry about this one... Yeah. And it's not like the Judge ruled that "Windows" is a trademarkable term. It's not; it's common usage. I have no problem continuing to use it commonly. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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