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Y Window System Project Started
cuppm writes "Y, Mark Thomas's final year project for his masters degree, is back in active development (outlined here). Here is the email I received: '...Y development is about to start up again. If you are interested in participating, the website is at: http://www.y-windows.org/. There are links to mailing lists there, and you can download the latest development snapshot, which should compile this time :o). I apologise if I did not respond to your email personally. I was on holiday in Japan when the story broke, and by the time I got back I had over 80 emails about the subject, many of them in depth. If you had specific points that you'd like to raise, I suggest re-raising them on the y-devel mailing list.' So for all those who think it's time for a X replacement, here's your shot. And for those X lovers, use Y's extensibility to make it X compatible." See our previous story for more background.
My recollection is that MS-Windows and XWindows were both invented around 1985. MS-Windows was typical Bill Gates vapor-announcement to co-opt Macintosh popularity (introduced in 1984). However, XWindows did not really supplant MS-DOS until version 3.1 around 1993, when both hardware and software became decent. Then it became a best seller and a trademark.
Also there wasnt really a single commercial entity behind XWindows to sue. It would look bad to sue MIT.