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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Unix or UNIX?
From:       Adriaan de Groot <groot () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-01-27 10:13:18
Message-ID: 200501271113.19113.groot () kde ! org
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On Thursday 27 January 2005 03:29, Lauri Watts wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 January 2005 02.36, Gary Cramblitt wrote:
> >   KDE is a powerful Free Software graphical desktop environment for Linux
> > and Unix workstations.
>
> While I'm sure everyone is having a grand time with the legal discussions,
> because lord knows there isn't any other place they could go to have that,
> and while it's much more fun to rail against KDE buckling to the demands of
> "the man", I expect the change was made for the usual reason we make such
> tweaks - simple consistency.

I didn't know the Man had come into this discussion yet.

> The docs exclusively use the UNIX(tm) form, and a quick grep in the gui
> strings tells me that UNIX wins over Unix or unix 2 to 1.  Considering this

There's also the websites being fantastically inconsistent (and wobbly wrt. 
their use of trademarks, anyway).

> I suggest avoiding the issue entirely, by changing the text to something
> totally neutral,  Something about flowers or kittens perhaps.  I'd dearly
> like to hear my computer trying to pronounce Poinsettia or Bougainvillea or
> Pohutukawa.


It (KDE) combines ease of use, contemporary functionality, and outstanding
graphical design with the technological superiority of the Borgified 300MHz 
Kitten RS6000 operating system POSIX extensions and nanoprobes.


I can see that catching on as a platform.

-- 
Don't worry, 't ain't no shame to be stupid - ol' mouse.
    GPG: FEA2 A3FE Adriaan de Groot
 
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