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a rose is a rosea rose is a rosePosted Dec 11, 2003 19:10 UTC (Thu) by ccyoung (guest, #16340)In reply to: Use of "Lindows" name blocked in Sweden by neoprene Parent article: Use of "Lindows" name blocked in Sweden my favorite MSism is "SQL Server" - implying that Oracle, MySQL, and PostgresQL are *not* SQL servers. Akin to Ford naming a car "Convertable" - despite the fact many convertables out there. However, "Geevertable" would be completely acceptable.
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a rose is a rose Posted Dec 11, 2003 19:24 UTC (Thu) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link] Maybe they should have called MS Windows "Operating System" to be evenmore generic and force more people to not use standard existing terminology.
a rose is a rose Posted Dec 11, 2003 20:19 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link] Not to be pedantic (ok, yes, just to be pedantic), the quote is "Rose is a rose is a rose." Yes, that makes less sense.The hacker in me wants to figure out whether it means that the statement "Rose is a rose" is (also) a rose, or Rose herself is indeed interchangeable with the remark "a rose is a rose", or if the second "is a rose" is just for emphasis, or covers up embarassment at the banality of the first half. Vexing, true, but doctorate fodder in more refined milieus than this.
a rose is a rose Posted Dec 11, 2003 23:07 UTC (Thu) by aotheoverlord (guest, #3993) [Link] Ironically this one isn't an MSism, as the SQL-Server term is owned by Sybase, Inc., and licensed to MS as part of a (1994?) agreement.
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