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Attibution

Posted Nov 30, 2006 9:39 UTC (Thu) by nathan (subscriber, #3559)
Parent article: What is open source?

These attribution requirements would be less onerous if they were in the form of a Help->About dialog box. Sugar's requirements don't scale and would use up my screen real estate for their advertising. Quite frankly one of the things that annoys me about Microsoft products is their title bars -- Word's for instance says, IIRC, '<FILEFOO> Microsoft Word' -- why are microsoft so insecure they feel the need to label everything?

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Uh, what?

Posted Nov 30, 2006 10:28 UTC (Thu) by dion (subscriber, #2764) [Link]

I'm typing this in a Firefox window labeled:
'LWN: Comment editor - Mozilla Firefox'

How is that:
1) Wrong?
2) Different from what Word does?

Uh, what?

Posted Nov 30, 2006 11:18 UTC (Thu) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263) [Link]

1) It isn't
2) You can change it

Uh, what?

Posted Nov 30, 2006 22:27 UTC (Thu) by vmole (guest, #111) [Link]

Um, that's due to your window manager setup. Change it if you like.

Attibution

Posted Nov 30, 2006 19:55 UTC (Thu) by kamil (subscriber, #3802) [Link]

I'm guessing this is done so that you get a more descriptive text when you use Alt+Tab to switch between windows.