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By author: Frank da Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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> In the popular press, "legacy" means "not Windows". The longer version is:
> "I am ashamed to admit I still have this old OS/computer/whatever but it's
> only because it is running some important applications that have not yet
> been upgraded to run on Windows, but really, I can't wait to throw the old
> thing out and I can't believe I was so stupid to have it in the first place."
>
> I think it is unfortunate that Unicode people use this term. Old standards
> are not foolish -- we used them for many years, and most of them were
> extremely well thought out, within their limitations, and furthermore, were
> the result of honest efforts among competing parties to arrive at solutions
> they could all live with -- something that rarely happens any more outside
> of Unicode. But really, in common parlance, "legacy" means foolish. Pick
> up any trade paper to see this.
>
I'm sorry, but I couldn't disagree more with the above statement.
Read just about any technical specification intended to supplant or
replace an older, successful standard (ESPECIALLY if it is intended to
supplant multiple standards) and you will see the word "legacy" being
used in the manner I have described. Trade papers are uttely
irrelevant -- this is techical work, not marketing. I'm sorry, I
don't buy into this particularly linguistic hangup of yours.
-hpa
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