Many years ago I visited a shop in France that sold what the Americans call "Hard Liquor"; some of it was extremely hard insofar as it was fake.
What has always stayed with me (one wonders why) was a row of bottles of whisky labelled 'Johnnie Walker", except that the L had been replaced with an N, and the Johnnie Walker image had been subtly altered by repositioning the chap's walking stick . . . (not one of Richmond's funny stories, honest). And what the "H" has this got to do with the Windows logo? Well, when is a logo the Windows logo, and when is it something else? I marketed a CD containing 63 Bulgarian Literary themes a couple of years ago (still selling it), for would-be High School kids to help them prepare for the exam in Bulgarian literature (as my father remarked "Only you could have chosen such a small niche market"). It contained a RR standalone for Windows. Now I had somehow to signal on the packet what its system requirements were; which were: Pentium 3, min. 600 MHz, Windows 98 or higher. As Windows is almost ubiquitous here in Bulgaria I labelled the product as follows: PC, P3, 98+ i.e. No 'Microsoft', no 'Windows' and no 'Pentium'. And, on my last visit to England I see that lots of software is labelled "PC", which, while being highly inaccurate, seems to mean that the software will run only on a Microsoft Windows OS. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson ____________________________________________________________ A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle. ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
