J Martin Rushton <martinrushto...@btinternet.com> writes: > Something similar occurs in other fields as well. Some years ago I > mentioned to a "PC expert" in a retail chain that the OS I used was > Linux. "Oh I've heard of that" he said brightly, then in a > condescending voice "Linux is what we call an application. Your > operating system controls the computer and is called Windows"! I > pointed out to him that I had probably been running and certainly > using computers before he was born, and was quite well aware what an > OS was.
Windows is what we call an application. The operating system controls the (Intel) CPU and is called an insecure version of Minix. Whatever Intel was thinking when it put _this_ into their "Management Engine"... Computers are getting ever more strange. > And then there are the people who regard .doc as a standard! Grrr. The funny thing is that Office Open XML (which is not Open Office XML but Microsoft's way of confusing market and standard bodies) is a "standard" ratified by standard bodies where basically all documents contain undocumented internal data structures of Microsoft Word. It's a "standard" written and pushed with the goal to crush actual open standards by meeting the letter of "published in a standard format" without meeting the definition of a standard. The stuff money can do in the world of computers... -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user