As my daughter stated, if a standard "has" to be applied let it be
Standard British English.
Having been "blasted" this evening by several clients, who feel
that the wholesale spell and grammar changes were capricious and
wondering why we are more concerned with spelling and grammar then
ensuring that nothing to broken by those fixes. If the only way I can
salvage the clients and their use of Linux is by backing out the
spelling and grammar fixes that is exactly what I am going to do.
I agree with the clients in one respect, why should they put their
time and money into supporting Linux, using Linux, and writing
applications for Linux, when some unknown person in some unknown
location has taken it upon themself to be the Spelling and Grammar
Checker making capricious changes with total disregard for what
those changes break.
I do not have an answer for them yet and I may never have an answer.
One client has been working on porting internal applications to Linux.
The goal was to give System Engineers who are in the field the tools
they need on laptops running Linux. Please notice I did use the past
tense 'was' instead of 'is' because I feel that this client has an
extremely bad taste about Linux from this incident.
To break code because someone did not like the way cpu & fpu were
capitalized is lunacy.
To defend the pural spelling of BIOS based on the fact it stands for
"Basic Input/Output System" therefore since the pural of 'System' is
"Systems"
; therefore the plural of BIOS is now BIOSs is shear lunacy.
The nice things about standards is that there are some many of them. ;-)
-- Terry L. Ridder Blue Danube Software (Blaue Donau Software) "We do not write software, we compose it."When the toast is burnt and all the milk has turned and Captain Crunch is waving farewell when the Big One finds you may this song remind you that they don't serve breakfast in hell ==Breakfast==Newsboys
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