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Matthew Sheffield

Elon Musk is so stupid that he's unintentionally forwarding a troll who sent him the X Window System logo that's been around since 1984 as if it were new thing made for him.

#linux #freebsd

A still from an Elon Musk video tweet promoting an "X" logo which he believes to be new.
The logo of the X Window System, the venerable Unix graphical library system which has been around since 1984
23 Jul 2023 at 21:18 | Open on mastodon.social
9 comments
Eaches

@mattsheffield I mean.... Shoulda went with Wayland.

23 Jul 2023 at 21:21 | Open on fosstodon.org
Matthew Sheffield

@eaches I guess he's got an Nvidia card so doesn't trust Wayland yet.

23 Jul 2023 at 21:22 | Open on mastodon.social
Mekuso

@mattsheffield Those two logos are not the same lol. Sure, they're similar, but as far as logos are concerned, details matter

23 Jul 2023 at 21:22 | Open on fosstodon.org
Matthew Sheffield

@mekuso They are not exactly the same, but they're so similar that a trademark lawsuit could certainly prevail, especially given that X and Twitter both provide software libraries for developers and users.

23 Jul 2023 at 21:23 | Open on mastodon.social
Santiago Lema :amiga:

@mattsheffield @mitch To be precise the X-Windows symbol had a minimal work on it to separate the shapes while the one on the left is literally the X from some font out there.

23 Jul 2023 at 21:31 | Open on masto.lema.org
Anders Gulden Olstad

@mattsheffield He's in deep shit now. SCO lawyers will call him on Monday

23 Jul 2023 at 22:14 | Open on infosec.exchange
kierkegaank

@mattsheffield his lawyers will make us say he invented it soon enough

23 Jul 2023 at 22:36 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org
Matthew Sheffield

I forgot to tag @XOrgFoundation. Hopefully you guys won't have to sue for such blatant trademark infringement.

24 Jul 2023 at 0:03 | Open on mastodon.social
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