- Fuck x.com. All my homies use wayland.social. - Damn, that’s unironically a pretty clever name for a Masto instance - And now it looks like it is 😁 - TIL 
 
 
 
- Cant believe it ! :D 
- 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. 
 
- Doesn’t matter, they are both deprecated. 
- twitter has more money (for lawsuits) - no benefit for xorg - the us is ruled by money 
- X is deprecated. I wonder why it still on the alphabet. - How long until Alphabet claims ownership of X? 
 
- Because X’s janitor budget for lunch is better than their whole budget. 
- There is no material loss. It’s not that X.org was swimming in cash before. - Now i have to search X11 or xorg instead of x… Thats a whole three to four letters more… Smh my head /s 
 
- I’d rather them use the money to fix bugs instead of suing billionaire though. 
- 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. - Unless you use Linux or a Unix-like OS you most likely have no idea what the X Windowing System is. 
 
- The name X is not copyrightable as far as I know. There is a lot of stuff named X. - Copyright is different to trademark. Any business name clash would be a trademark dispute - Trademark only matters if there is possible confusion. 
- The basic stylization looks pretty similar. - In so far as they are both the letter X. Otherwise they share little similarities. - They both have a bigger line and a smaller line. - And one has a distinctive and large orange loop that clearly differentiates it. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
- You can’t trademark a letter of the alphabet. - 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. 
 
- They’ll likely get drowned in the birdie’s gigantic pile of cash. 
- Suing for what? 
- One letter domains are cringe - Gotta sue the alphabet, at that point. - You mean parent company of google? - 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. 
 
 
 
- Because X is dying anyway? - which one tho - which one tho - Yes. 
 
 
















