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Date:      Fri, 05 Oct 2007 02:18:04 -0400
From:      =?UTF-8?B?6Z+T5a625qiZIEJpbGwgSGFja2Vy?= <askbill@conducive.net>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: viral license free fork of freebsd
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Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> On 10/5/07, 韓家標 Bill Hacker <askbill@conducive.net> wrote:
>> Aryeh Friedman wrote:
>>
>> *snip*
>>
>>> I have other reasons and goals then "I don't like the license"
>>> specifically if I was going to start building an os under a SIW
>>> license (http://www.flosoft-systems.com/miai/index.php and
>>> http://www.flosoft-systems.com/blogs/aryeh/index.php [first three
>>> enteries])
>> I'm certainly no paragon of typing or spelling accuracy myself, but I hope you
>> won't be offended if I suggest taking a *spell checker* to both of those
> 
> I thought they where basically well proof read... oh well... will go
> through them again (particularly the second one)

One thing professional writers learn very early (1960's):

NO ONE can proofread their own work well.

We 'see' what we *intended* to say - not what we actually typed.

Spell-checkers are objective.

Even when dead-wrong, they draw your eye to possible anomalies.

...and still miss a few.

Such as the time a VP of Sales called me to whine that he didn't have a sister....

???

One of my staff had published the new Sales Compensation Plan - having 
spell-checked 'blind'. Thereby turning  'incent', 'incentive', incentivize' to 
'incest' ... and derivatives.

Compilers are even less discriminate, BTW.

;-)


Bill



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