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by bitwize 3820 days ago
Since not even the X.Org Foundation is particularly attached to X anymore, they could just let it lapse and register wayland.org or something.
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X isn't dead and wont be for years
Even if they aren't closely tied to the X software package anymore, they are literally called "the X.Org Foundation". Why wouldn't they want to hang on to x.org?
The X.Org Foundation was formed for stewardship of X, the window system and its canonical implementation.

Since X is now deprecated tech (the foundation itself even states that Wayland is the future), a name change is perhaps in order.

At least according to Keith, I don't think X.org officially holds that stance.
I've seen posts by "X.Org Foundation" on their official Google+ page to the effect that Wayland is the display server of the future and efforts should be focused to target it.
I quite like the sound of xorg.org. Or perhaps they could rent x.org.org off the chap who currently owns org.org.
X.Org.info, the perfect place to find info about a project called X.Org.
Hell, even if they called themselves something completely different... that'd still be a valuable asset.
wayland.org is already taken by a college