Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 20:41:32 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive article.sgml Message-ID: <20040824184131.GC760@zaphod.nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <20040824182046.GA1877@gothmog.gr> References: <200408241800.i7OI0p8J029409@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040824181446.GB760@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20040824182046.GA1877@gothmog.gr>
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--5G06lTa6Jq83wMTw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2004.08.24 21:20:46 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2004-08-24 20:14, "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On 2004.08.24 18:00:51 +0000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > keramida 2004-08-24 18:00:51 UTC > > > > > > FreeBSD doc repository > > > > > > Modified files: > > > en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive article.sgml > > > Log: > > > Use &ms-dos; for referring to MS-DOS to match the style of &windows= ; in > > > the same sentence. > > > > When I went through the documentation I left all instances of DOS > > alone and only changed MS-DOS to &ms-dos;, since DOS is not a > > trademark of Microsoft, but MS-DOS is. > > Ah, I see now. > > > It seems rather random if DOS or MS-DOS were used, though in the > > context of the FreeBSD documentation there probably isn't really a > > difference... > > Hmm. If you think it's really not necessary to change instances of DOS > to &ms-dos; I'll leave the rest that I come across unchanged. Do you It is not necessary trademark wise (AFAIK) since MS-DOS !=3D DOS so we don't violate any trademarks by just writing DOS without a trademark symbol, but for consistency it might make sense to prefer one over the other. As I see it, DOS means all variants (including MS-DOS, DR-DOS, IBM-DOS and so on) where MS-DOS refers specifically to MS-DOS. In the context of FreeBSD documentation I think in most cases when referring to MS-DOS, it would apply to other DOS variants as well. > also want me to back this one out? I don't have a strong preference for > DOS or &ms-dos; either. I don't really have any strong preference either, since both DOS and MS-DOS are both used many places. I don't think there is any reason to back out this particular commit since it doesn't change much either way. If someone felt like going through the (MS-)DOS references and use either one consistently (and of course checking that it was OK to change it each particular instance) I think it would be nice, but it's not something I care enough about to do it myself :-). --=20 Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team --5G06lTa6Jq83wMTw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBK4vbh9pcDSc1mlERAnZcAJ9a4NbQ2RPZxasjhyMH1TqWJC+XjQCfVe6q 4STaouP12k2ZmdMRsdl7kJI= =sMbp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5G06lTa6Jq83wMTw--
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