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?

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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.
and just using free licenses in the first place?
MIT, BSD, WTFPL, public domain are all more free than GPL.

You know what's really awesome about open source Lisp code? Almost all of it is licensed as MIT, BSD, public domain, LLGPL (more free LGPL which lets you statically link too), or something else free-er than vanilla GPL. So far few things are done as LGPL, and much lesser (and less serious projects) are done as GPL. Most people avoid the latter as cancer.