On Monday 27 December 2004 02:51 pm, William Ballard wrote:
> Sorry for starting a new thread; I deleted it.
>
> Microsoft has a whole division of people and has written special
> software ("PoliCheck") that automatically searches source code and
> source texts for politically sensitive words and culturally sensitive
> phrases.
It doesn't work, though: It misses things like "EULA" and
"proprietary." 8:o)
> One must pick boring names, like "Word" :-)
Why? Debian didn't pick a boring name. Neither did Apache, and that
name (arguably) isn't politically correct. abcde and GNU also failed
to pick a boring name.
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Paul Johnson
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