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Storksforlegs to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 2 years ago

Elon May Have a Huge Issue Because Microsoft Owns the “X” Trademark

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Elon May Have a Huge Issue Because Microsoft Owns the “X” Trademark

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Storksforlegs to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 2 years ago
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There's another big problem with Elon Musk's Twitter rebrand: Microsoft owns the trademark to the title "X." In a word: lol.
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    Maybe this will finally kill Xorg

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      Wayland: Can I come out now?

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        Coming out is not a valid use case, and must be implemented by each individual compositor with incompatible protocol extensions.

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      Does that sentiment include Xwayland, Xlib, and the X protocol? What’s the alternative to X, the Windows Remote Desktop Protocol?

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