*sigh* Its not refusal to learn new terms. Its refusal on *your* part to use the correct term in the correct environment. and as has been clearly demonstrated the origination of the terms you refer to had nothing to do with Bill Gates, (in fact, bill Gates himself had very little to do with the development of Windows, he had a miriad of programmers to do it for him by that stage). Teddy, if you prefer Windows, go and use it, but please stop antagonizing people on this list about your choice. Regards Aaron On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 05:44:15AM +0300, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > If you refuse to learn new terms, only because they are invented by Bill > Gates, ... well ... I understand. > Teddy Center: http://teddy.fcc.ro/ > Mail: orasnita at home.ro > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Toby Fisher" <toby_fisher at bigfoot.com> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 4:28 AM > Subject: Re: General question about Linux > > > On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > > > I have worked in stationery, and I know what are the differences between a > > folder and other methods of storing data. > > I also know that an intelligent guy named the directory as "directory" > for > > a computer a few tens of years ago, but I don't care about that. > > If I say folder, do you understand me? > > If you do, why care to say a longer word just to please some intelligent > > people that don't like to adopt easier things because they are not > > "correct." > > There is one simple answer to this. If you are talking to someone who has > never used windows (yes, they do exist), they may not know what you mean. > Folder is a windows term, directory is a computer term, it was used under > DOS, it's used under Unix, and it can be used under Winblows. Also, there > are people in this World who will choose not to know what you mean, so be > careful. As for me, directory is better, it's nothing about longer words > etc, it's just that I refuse to use a term invented by Bill Gates and his > cronies, when there's a perfectly good one already. > > Cheers. > > -- > Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk > Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 > ICQ: #61744808 > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- +----------------------------------------------------------+ / |\ _,,,---,,_ /| / /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ / | / |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' / | / '---''(_/--' `-'\_) / | +----------------------------------------------------------+ | | Aaron Howell Kitten Internet | | | aaron at kitten.net.au Internet consultancy, | | | Phone: +61-417-625550 System administration, | | | fax: +61-7-36010099 system design/integration. | | | icq: 6715521 http://www.kitten.net.au | | | | | | | + | | / | | / | | / | |/ +----------------------------------------------------------+
