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Bad NIH, good NIH

Posted Mar 16, 2013 7:22 UTC (Sat) by Serge (guest, #84957)
In reply to: Bad NIH, good NIH by Cyberax
Parent article: Canonical reveals plans to launch Mir display server (The H)

> That's an extension, not the X protocol itself.

In X world extensions are part of the X11 protocol. For example this particular extension is part of X11R6.9, you can see that in its URL.


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Bad NIH, good NIH

Posted Mar 16, 2013 9:08 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

But it's not a part of my X server.

Waaahhhh! X encourages fragmentation!

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