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Re: MacOS X -> Mac OS X


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: MacOS X -> Mac OS X
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 01:59:06 +0200
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Hi Max,

> I noticed that gnulib (almost) consistently misspells "Mac OS X" as
> "MacOS X".

Indeed, you're right. I've been consistently writing "MacOS X", whereas
now I see that 95% of the rest of the world writes "Mac OS X", including
Wikipedia.
Google hits for "MacOS X"    36e6
Google hits for "Mac OS X": 660e6

> I was wondering whether a patch that resolves
> this would be accepted. Since it would touch quite some places, I am not
> sure if you would like such a thing at all...

Yes, please, such a patch is welcome. (Except for the ChangeLog. We don't
normally modify the ChangeLog a posteriori.)

Paul Eggert wrote:
> But "Mac OS X" is incorrect too.
> The operating system's name is now just "OS X",

Well, it has been "Mac OS X" for more than 10 years. I'm not inclined to
follow every company's language changes, especially those motivated by
marketing, if there is a decade-long widespread usage of the prior term.

Bruno




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