There's another big problem with Elon Musk's Twitter rebrand: Microsoft owns the trademark to the title "X." In a word: lol.
  • Random_Character_AEnglish
    39•2 years ago

    While he’s at it, he’ll probably start patent trolling Linux community for X window system.

        • Something Burger 🍔English
          10•2 years ago

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

      • @jarfil@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1•2 years ago

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

    • proleEnglish
      8•2 years ago

      Aw man, I was trying to angrily shout racist hate speech into the void, but instead I ended up uninstalling Windows completely…

      This confusion is exactly why Elon needs to protect his new trademark!