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Re: [PATCH/committed] ChangeLog: change Winblowz to Windows

From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, Rical Jasan <ricaljasan at pacific dot net>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 11:45:20 -0700
Subject: Re: [PATCH/committed] ChangeLog: change Winblowz to Windows
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Carlos O'Donell wrote:

indirectly putting down users that use
Windows or Mac OSX is not nice

While we're on the topic of terminology, commentary shouldn't call thatoperating system "Windows", a name that is too easily confused with the X WindowSystem and with other windowing systems. This is why the US Patent and TrademarkOffice rejected Microsoft's attempt to trademark "Windows".

In GNU Emacs commit messages, we often call the it "MS-Windows", which is shortenough and is clearer than "Windows".

References:
- [PATCH/committed] ChangeLog: change Winblowz to Windows
  - From: Mike Frysinger
- Re: [PATCH/committed] ChangeLog: change Winblowz to Windows
  - From: Rical Jasan
- Re: [PATCH/committed] ChangeLog: change Winblowz to Windows
  - From: Mike Frysinger
- Re: [PATCH/committed] ChangeLog: change Winblowz to Windows
  - From: Carlos O'Donell

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