Re: terminology

[Ilan Volow <raskinite yahoo com>]

colin z robertson wrote:

>hmm. You make a strong argument. I may reluctantly
> have to agree with you here. I can, though, see 
> another problem with folders: As a Free desktop
> environment we're rather dependent on the good will
> of hackers. Taking a quick look through a few Gnome
> applications I can see almost all of them 
> using "directory" rather than "folder". If we
> start asking hackers to switch to "folder", what 
> chance do we have that they will actually do so?


100% chance. We have their source code, remember? Free
software (I'm sounding like a broken Richard Stallman
record, I know) means that if one person (or a very
large corporation, foundation, league, etc) are doing
things with the UI that you know are tremendously
user-hostile and will really ruin the total user
experience, you have the opportunity to make changes
to their code and publish your own version. You can
give your users something that the other guys refused
to give them. Take *that* Jim Allchin. ;)

--Ilan. 



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