X was meant to be a lowest common denominator for Unix workstation vendors to base their proprietary software, window managers and desktop envrionments on. Too

X was meant to be a lowest common denominator for Unix workstation vendors to base their proprietary software, window managers and desktop envrionments on. Too much standardization at that point would have meant less distinguishing features for their products. Today all major unix workstation vendors are dead which shows they were clearly wrong.