+ Bill Janssen <email@hidden>:
> The question I invite you to think about is, what's the point of
> including X11 on OS X? [...]
>
> It seems to me (and I freely admit I could be wrong), that the
> essential purpose of bundling X11 with OS X is to provide
> compatibility for non-Apple applications, typically applications
> which have been developed for Linux or BSD or Solaris and then
> ported to OS X.
You seem to forget what is the biggie for me at least: Running X11
applications on remote machines. X11 is is a networking window
system, and as far as I can tell it has no real competition in that
niche. So it's not going away anytime soon. If I could no longer
have X11 on the Mac, I'd ditch all my Macs without a moment's
hesitation (but plenty of regret) and go back to plain ol' FreeBSD
(which is still what I have on my desktop at work, BTW).
- Harald
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