Minor issues with Cygwin/X FAQ webpage

Tue Jul 21 14:15:00 GMT 2015

On 20/07/2015 20:14, Mouse wrote:
> I happened to be looking at
> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html and I noticed some
> oddities which might call for fixing. This is the only place I could
> find for reporting such issues, though of course it's entirely possible

This is the correct place to report such issues.
> I missed something; FAQ item 1.9 makes me think there should be
> somewhere better, but on reading http://cygwin.com/lists.html (as
> linked to by the FAQ), it's not clear what it would be.
>> In FAQ item 1.9, I find
>> Cygwin/X has a mailing list, namely, cygwin@cygwin.com. [...]
>> Tip: Post your X-related inquires to cygwin@cygwin.com only; do
> not post nor cross post your inquires to the cygwin@cygwin.com
> mailing list. [...]
>> Surely those list addresses shouldn't _all_ be the same...?

This piece of text obviously doesn't make much sense after the 
search-and-replace which happened when the cygwin-xfree list was deprecated.
I've removed the self-contradictory sentence.
> While less important, I also find
>> 12.8. Isn't "XWin" trademarked by StarNet Communications?
>> No. A quick search at the United States Patent and Trademark Office
> for "XWin" [...]
>> The question does not specify a jurisdiction; that XWin is not a
> relevant trademark in the USA does not mean it's not elsewhere. (While
> I'm not aware of any where it is, I haven't gone looking. I'm mostly
> just trying to counter the "the USA is the whole world" tendency I see
> creeping in here as it already has far too many other places.)

I don't know why this is in the FAQ. It seems to record the discussion 
at [1].
How would you suggest rewriting this?
[1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2001-q2/msg01052.html
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