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The X server manages the physical display and provides a virtual display abstraction for clients. X clients connect to the server and make requests.

The X server is called a server because it is a server and X clients are clients.

It's excusable to be confused by the terminology, as in the quote, of course. Unless you claim to understand the whole "network" thing.

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Actually, the sale of babies for meat would not have eased economic conditions in 18th century Ireland.

As humor, it's like Tesla's appearance on Top Gear: kind of funny until the 57th time you have to explain to someone why it's wrong.

So you're saying these people don't know what 'client', 'server' and 'networking' mean and they should have stopped trying to be funny at 'Annals of Unix Hating, Vol. 56'. Tough crowd.

Yes. Yes, that is exactly what I'm saying.

I suppose I know who to call on when a real zebra's head transportation emergency arises.

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