[hobbit] On the "Client S/W" again

TJ Yang tjyang2001 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 17 18:05:56 CET 2010


Hi, Martin

I was hoping to see "Client S/W" got changed to "Client version text"
to clearly express that the value in clientversion.cfg is just a "text
of client version".

But since the math tell me +1-1=0. so no action will be taken.


tj

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Ward, Martin <Martin.Ward at colt.net> wrote:
> Hi TJ,
>
>
> I asked about what is "Client S/W" a few years back and got answer
> that S/W stand for software.
>
> To me this S/W is not a good name and causing unnecessary question from peer admins and users.
>  I am hoping to change it to "Client version" or something more meaningful than "Client S/W".
>
> Your problem here is going to be the fact that s/w is the de facto standard abbreviation for software. Likewise h/w is the abbreviation for hardware. It has been like this for as long as I have been in the computing industry (which is about 24 years) so you are going against a very long time of usage.
>
> I'm not saying that you are wrong, just that s/w has been around forever so there are many who would not like the change.
>
> |\/|artin
>
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