Subject: Re: IPv6 on your business card?
To: Miles Nordin <carton@Ivy.NET>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 02/01/2000 16:55:52
>By the way (Andrew Brown), _X_ or _X Window System_, please.  It's an easy
>mistake and I know I'm being obnoxious, but when people say X Windows I
>feel like someone is running their fingernails down a chalkboard. The X
>people were very explicit that they don't want their work called this (see
>x(1)), and it's disrespectful in a way because it makes it sound like
>inside your head X is just the Unix implementation of Microsoft
>Windows--of course I know that it isn't and please don't take this as
>off-putting.  Probably more people say X Windows than X, but it's still
>not correct (and destructively misleading).

that's actually X(1), but your exception is noted.  :)

i will try to do better.

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