More marketing confusion

Posted Mar 24, 2004 20:16 UTC (Wed) by allesfresser (guest, #216)
In reply to: More marketing confusion by nix
Parent article: Wal-Mart and Sun share Linux desktop lust (Register)

Aside from the secondary-language issue mentioned above, it does make it look like the writer assumes that "code(s)" is/are some secret magic incantations stolen from the privileged few, rather than simply the instructions for how to do something. (And this would certainly fit with the aforementioned cargo-cultish war3z d00d mentality.)

I would also like to mention the similar (ab)use of "softwares" as a plural fungible instead of "software" or "software packages" as a collective class.

Both of these misusages are becoming increasingly common... sigh...