# HG changeset patch
# User Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
# Date 1098946007 0
# Node ID 49c3962f983cf15117f7c07c26e6b4ee184597fb
# Parent  77c93cbb17219738775c662560544e212733f506
(Display Feature Testing): Explain about "vendor".

diff -r 77c93cbb1721 -r 49c3962f983c lispref/frames.texi
--- a/lispref/frames.texi	Thu Oct 28 06:37:48 2004 +0000
+++ b/lispref/frames.texi	Thu Oct 28 06:46:47 2004 +0000
@@ -1980,12 +1980,18 @@
 @defun x-server-version &optional display
 This function returns the list of version numbers of the X server
 running the display.  The value is a list of three integers: the major
-and minor version numbers, and the vendor-specific release number.
+and minor version numbers of the X protocol, and the
+distributor-specific release number of the X server software itself.
 @end defun
 
 @defun x-server-vendor &optional display
-This function returns the ``vendor'' that provided the X server software
-(as a string).
+This function returns the ``vendor'' that provided the X server
+software (as a string).  Really this means whoever distributes the X
+server.
+
+When the developers of X labelled software distributors as
+``vendors'', they showed their false assumption that no system could
+ever be developed and distributed noncommercially.
 @end defun
 
 @ignore