Design failures

For example, all X11 clients crash when the server goes down.

When was the last time your browser crashed because a server was down? Or your irc client? Or whatever else there is except for X11 programs? Yeah, that's right.

Why they wouldn't just wait for the server to come up again and reconnect is beyond me. I mean it's a client-server system, so what's the point of not making use of it? Sure, you can connect from some remote machine and play around for a bit, but it's fucking useless when all your programs crash once you disconnect!!!

What the fuck were they thinking?

So if you can't (or won't) accept the accompanying distribution license to some software code (and therefore reject the code altogether), how can communities manage to cooperate?
How about by not being dicks and just using free licenses in the first place? Plenty of licenses preferred by 9 of 10 non-dicks lets the code be shared with pretty much anything just fine.