Re: [dev] Interesting post about X11

Anselm R Garbe dixit (2010-06-15, 06:59):

> On 14 June 2010 12:13, pancake <pancake_AT_youterm.com> wrote:
> > http://julien.danjou.info/blog/2010.html#Thoughts%20and%20rambling%20on%20the%20X%20protocol
>
> This post proves once again that a new window system is what everyone
> is waiting for and that it's our opportunity to do that.

I was greeted by this fortune(6) today (most of you will have probably already
seen it, but for the amusement of others):

X windows:
        We will dump no core before its time.
        One good crash deserves another.
        A bad idea whose time has come. And gone.
        We make excuses.
        It didn't even look good on paper.
        You laugh now, but you'll be laughing harder later!
        A new concept in abuser interfaces.
        How can something get so bad, so quickly?
        It could happen to you.
        The art of incompetence.
        You have nothing to lose but your lunch.
        When uselessness just isn't enough.
        More than a mere hindrance. It's a whole new barrier!
        When you can't afford to be right.
        And you thought we couldn't make it worse.

If it works, it isn't X windows.

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