companies like that, there's duplicated effort. So it's, it's not, obviously it's going to happen in open source. And I think that X11 is just, it's been around for a long time. How long has it been around, you ask? A long time. In the 90s and early 2000s, what we know as X11 was called XFree86. That was the project that was driving really all, you know, everything with a, if you were looking at a graphical display on a Linux or a BSD system, it was probably, it was, I guess it was probably, I guess that's a big statement, like probably XFree86, because I don't, I don't know, to be fair, like, yeah, okay, I won't say the majority, but I mean, that was it. That was a big deal, right? That was one of the, that was the project essentially. And then at some point, they, the XFree86 project began distributing, this is just from the, from Wikipedia, began distributing new code with a copyright license that the Free Software Foundation considered GPL incompatible. So that was a big problem. (17/42)
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