Part of Project Athena at MIT in the 1980s. Not sure when the logo happened, but almost certainly it'll be owned by either The Open Group, or the X.org Foundation today. It's likely, however, that it'll be under an MIT-style license, so a moderately difficult prosecution of its rights if anyone wanted to. -Adam
Get Outlook for Androidhttps://aka.ms/AAb9ysg ________________________________ From: Roundtable roundtable-bounces@muug.ca on behalf of Trevor Cordes trevor@tecnopolis.ca Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2023 4:39:29 PM To: roundtable@muug.ca roundtable@muug.ca Subject: Re: [RndTbl] X.com vs X.org logos
I'm sure someone originally "owned" X. AT&T? Oldsters (well older than me!) will know. They, and then the companies who merged with them or bought them out, would probably own the logo trademark.
The logos are similar enough, and they are both in the realm of "computers", therefore there may be issues. But if no one really cares about the X logo anymore, whoever owns it should sell it to Elon and make mega-bank! If this benefits the community (Xorg) somehow, then bonus. _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.ca https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable