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From: jg@max.crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: more trademark information: Xview, Xpr, Xpert, Xgraph
Keywords: Image Network, xpr, xview, xpert
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Date: 20 Jul 89 15:58:03 GMT
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I am Xtremely veXed at the Xtensive use of X most people are
showing.  Xtra effort should be Xerted to Xtreme lengths to Xploit the possibilty
for product names without X's in them.  Maybe we should Xterminate people who use
X by Xcavating a toXic waste dump for them, taX them on a piXel basis, Xtrude
them from a 1" pipe, or take other Xtreme measures,  or there will be nothing
Xtant written which looks anything near normal.

I must Xtole the virtures of OSF's choice of Motif for their product's name, for
example, where we are spared the usual Xcrable use of X.  /usr/dict/words on my
machine shows only 588 words with X's in them; at the current rate, we can
Xtrapolate that they will all end up trademarks within a few years, and we'll
all end up in court arguing about who used which one first.

Just because Bob and I never got around to Xpressing a better name
for the window system before it was too late doesn't mean everyone else should
follow our bad Xample.  We should Xpunge words with X from our vocabulary,
before we are Xposed as the unoriginal people we are, and eXploited and Xtorted
for Xhorbitant sums.  Here is the cruX, I hope by this Xhibition and Xhaustive
Xercise to raise people's awareness, before we are Xcruciatingly bored by
such false deXterity of marketing.

					- Jim Gettys

P.S. If you didn't guess, the above opinion is solely my own, with more than
a little bit of humor intended.  There are approximately 47 X's in this message,
and who knows how many trademarks....