From: Jesse Pollard <pollard@admin.navo.hpc.mil>
To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>,
jsimmons@infradead.org (James Simmons)
Cc: andre@linux-ide.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Linux in the News! WooHoo!
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 17:15:59 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200301221715.59623.pollard@admin.navo.hpc.mil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301222238.h0MMcgk1000129@darkstar.example.net>
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 04:38 pm, John Bradford wrote:
> > > 2 for "X Window"
> > > 10 for "X Windows"
> > > 13 for Motif
> >
> > Unfoturnely the search engines are not that good.
>
> Actually, they are not that inaccurate, considering that there is no
> such thing as "X Windows".
>
> The name of the software you are refering to is The X Window System,
> or just X. The version that is commonly in use these days is often
> called X11R6, X11, or R6.
>
> Why is this mistake almost never mentioned, and yet the discussions
> about whether Linux or GNU/Linux is the correct never seem to stop?
>
> John.
Yes - I knew about that mistake, which is what I assumed when I made the
query. HR droids insist on putting the "s" on it because it "just rolls off
the tongue" so easily. It is also because M$ shoves the word as belonging to
them so hard in their advertising.
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Jesse I Pollard, II
Email: pollard@navo.hpc.mil
Any opinions expressed are solely my own.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-22 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-19 4:55 Linux in the News! WooHoo! Andre Hedrick
2003-01-19 15:16 ` Wakko Warner
2003-01-21 22:26 ` [OT] " James Simmons
2003-01-21 22:57 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-01-22 22:11 ` James Simmons
2003-01-22 22:23 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-23 8:01 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-01-23 8:25 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-23 9:49 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-22 22:38 ` John Bradford
2003-01-22 23:15 ` Jesse Pollard [this message]
2003-01-22 23:09 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-01-23 7:57 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-01-22 0:51 ` jjs
2003-01-22 9:32 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-01-22 19:33 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-01-22 20:03 ` Maciej Soltysiak
2003-01-24 11:42 ` Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
2003-01-23 11:58 ` Bruce Harada
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