From owner-freebsd-www  Wed Jun 18 13:03:58 1997
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-www>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA07970
          for www-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 13:03:58 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from yoss.canweb.net (root@yoss.canweb.net [207.139.235.8])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA07955
          for <www@FreeBSD.ORG>; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 13:03:51 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from localhost (yossman@localhost)
	by yoss.canweb.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA12665;
	Wed, 18 Jun 1997 15:57:06 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 15:57:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: yossman <yossman@yoss.canweb.net>
To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@apfel.de>
cc: www@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ACK! 'X Windows'?!
In-Reply-To: <p1i7mfz31ch.fsf@campa.panke.de>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970618155635.11516D-100000@yoss.canweb.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk


i stand corrected.  my apologies. ;-)

still, 'X Windows' it ain't.


yossman

On 13 Jun 1997, Wolfram Schneider wrote:

> yossman <yossman@yoss.canweb.net> writes:
> > on http://www.freebsd.org/applications.html,
> > 
> > 'X Windows workstation. From an inexpensive X terminal to an advanced X
> > display, FreeBSD works quite well.'
> > 
> > PLEASE PLEASE don't call it 'X Windows'.  at the VERY least change that to
> > 'X Windowing System workstation'.  i sympathize with the X consortium, who
> > has tried to make it very clear they do not want it to be called 'X
> > Windows'.  the only two real names for the system is either just 'X' or
>                       ^^^
> > 'The X Windowing System'.
>                ^^^uh
> 
> There are five legal names. It is easy to verify, just
> type `man X' ;-) 
> 
>        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
> 
>        X Window System is a trademark of X Consortium, Inc.
> 
> -- 
> Wolfram Schneider    <wosch@apfel.de>    http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/
> 


------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yossarian Holmberg (yossman)             yossman@canweb.net
System Administrator, National Online    http://www.canweb.net/~yossman/
my statements are my own, not my employer's -- i do not speak for them.

'... and if i die, before i learn to speak .. can money pay for all the
days i've lived awake but half asleep?' -- Primitive Radio Gods,
"Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand"