Michael Poole wrote: > Please stop this crusade to redefine "software." Its definition: > > soft·ware, n. : The programs, routines, and symbolic languages that > control the functioning of the hardware and direct its operation. > > (From dictionary.com; WordNet 1.6 includes "associated documentation", > but FOLDOC and others do not, and outside of Debian I have not seen > "software" used to include documentation or non-program bits.) > > The entire point of the recent GR was that some Debian developers and > users use "software" as the rest of the world uses the word, and > exclude things like fonts, images, or statistical data. When I walk into a store and want to purchase a copy of windows, mac os, something to do my taxes, or an electronic encyclopedia, I go to the "software" section. I do not go to the "collections of software, documentation, fonts, images, sounds, and data" section. -- see shy jo
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