Re: terminology

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

Ilan Volow wrote:

> 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. 

Maybe so, but that seems a bit underhanded and downright rude to me.  If 
I wrote code that specifically used one term, and you took it and 
changed that term, I'd be rather *pissed* at you, and I'm sure slashdot 
would make a big stink out of it.

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-b

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