On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 17:34 -0500, Richard M. Stallman wrote:
Nearly - though any new acronym can obfuscate. For that reason, I'd
suggest going with ISD, because of its similarity to the familiar
ISV, at least the reader may clue in by association and context.
ISD would
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On dim, 2005-11-27 at 13:48 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 10:48 +, Bill Haneman wrote:
Nearly - though any new acronym can obfuscate. For that reason, I'd
suggest going with ISD, because of its similarity to the familiar
ISV, at least the
Vincent Untz wrote:
[I removed all the cc]
On dim, 2005-11-27 at 13:48 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 10:48 +, Bill Haneman wrote:
Nearly - though any new acronym can obfuscate. For that reason, I'd
suggest going with ISD, because of its similarity to the
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Alan Horkan wrote:
Does ISV stand for Independent Software Vendor? If so, the term is
often misleading, because the most important developers of GNOME
applications--those developing free software--are mostly not vendors.
The important point is the need for clear
And as an individual, I think that choice of word did fail.
Whenever I saw/read ISV in any context in GNOME, I thought of it
as issues concerning businesses only, not myself as a *user* of
the GNOME libraries, etc. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
No indeed you were not. Count me in :)
So
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 14:55 +, Alan Horkan wrote:
We can't solve the problem by denying it.
No one is denying the power of words but matters of linguistics are
distracting from more important issues (like the need for clear
information and heading off patent threats).
Actually, the
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 06:26:05PM +0100, Quim Gil wrote:
In GNOME we donpt talk usually about first-party and second-party
developers AFAIK (I have only heard of beer-parties). But we talsk about
GNOME developers and GNOME hackers, in this context I find more
appropriate Independent Software
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 06:48:31PM -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
Businesses require more than an email client and a web browser, they
require the highly vertical applications that enable them to carry
out their business. These may be as simple as inventory control or
as complex as an
