[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at nz.invalid
Sat Apr 20 18:25:09 EDT 2024


On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 16:08:33 +0100, chrisq wrote:

> On 4/20/24 01:37, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 01:05:41 +0100, chrisq wrote:
>> 
>>> Absolutely, Solaris, Linux, Freebsd and even cygwin + X + xfce4, all
>>> depend on X11 at core. VMS as well, though not sure of current status.
>> 
>> DEC was a key contributor in the development of X11. But that was then.
>> 
>>> As with systemd, Wayland looks like yet another attempt at power grab
>>> ...
>> 
>> I wonder who you think is “grabbing” this “power”. Both systemd and
>> Wayland are open-source projects, created by people who see a problem
>> and are trying to fix it. Those in the community who see value in these
>> efforts adopt their solutions, others don’t. There is no Monopolistic™
>> BigCorp® forcing any of these things down our throats. If you don’t
>> want to use them, don’t use them.
> 
> systemd originally came from redhat. I rest my case.

Most Linux users don’t use Red Hat. It seems to be mainly a North American 
thing.

What “case” were you talking about, exactly?



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