Subj : Rosenthal: X Window System At 40
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From : LWN.net
Date : Wed Jul 03 2024 14:30:05

Rosenthal: X Window System At 40

Date:
Wed, 03 Jul 2024 13:25:49 +0000

Description:
David Rosenthal looks
back at 40 years of the X Window System: A major reason for Sun's early 
success was that they in effect
	open-sourced the Network File System. X11 was open source under the
	MIT license. I, and some of the other Sun engineers, understood
	that NeWS could not displace X11 as the Unix standard window system
	without being equally open source. But Sun's management looked at
	NeWS and saw superior technology, an extension of the PostScript
	that Adobe was selling, and couldn't bring themselves to give it
	away.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/980556/


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