• @[email protected]OP
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      It was such fun looking for kernel updates and holding off for dear life… Otherwise your system booted up to a command line prompt. Fine fine. I guess X will just continue to spiral plurally together as one big xmass.

  • @[email protected]
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    When X.com eventually gets around to making its own window system, they may be in legal trouble. Perhaps the resulting lawsuit can raise enough money to get X.org development going again.

    • ddh
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      71 year ago

      How long until Alphabet claims ownership of X?

  • @mcepl
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    Because X’s janitor budget for lunch is better than their whole budget.

    • SaltyIceteaMaker
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      Now i have to search X11 or xorg instead of x… Thats a whole three to four letters more… Smh my head /s

  • Beej Jorgensen
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    It is very unlikely there is customer confusion over the matter. Though both companies are in tech, they are in wildly different branches of tech. I don’t think X.org has a valid trademark complaint in this case.

    • @pete_the_cat
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      Unless you use Linux or a Unix-like OS you most likely have no idea what the X Windowing System is.

    • @herr
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      You absolutely can, but trademarks need to be domain-specific. And the social media platform and the window system don’t have much overlap in their respective domains.

      Another window system couldn’t come along and call itself “X”, but a microwave manufacturer very well might be able to.

        • @[email protected]
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          101 year ago

          I kinda hate it when companies steal existing common terms (alphabet, apple, windows, meta); it’s a unilateral usurpation of everyone’s speech, and (to some degree) a violation of the their minds.

  • @netwren
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    Because X is dying anyway?