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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.

-- 
Paul Johnson
baloo@ursine.dyndns.org
http://ursine.dyndns.org/~baloo/

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