
@jmc It's kind of impressive in its glorious insanity.
I just re-read Don's "X Windows" chapter of the Unix Haters Handbook for the first time since probably nineteen diggity-aught -- http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disaster.html
....and like 80% of it still tracks if you s/X/Wayland/
The Iran-Contra jokes in there kinda hit different today, and yet also don't, at all.
Time is a flat circle.