General question about Linux

[Octavian Rasnita]

If you refuse to learn new terms, only because they are invented by Bill
Gates, ... well ... I understand.
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----- 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.

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