Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3]

2021-08-06 Thread Andrew Bird via Freedos-devel
Hi Aitor, On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 23:28:54 +0200 Aitor Santamaría wrote: > On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 at 21:11, Ralf Quint wrote: > > > > Insights from native english/american (English/American) people? > > > > > I learned this from my first English class in school, pretty much 50 > > years ago... ;-) >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3]

2021-08-06 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi, > On Aug 6, 2021, at 2:21 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > > Jim Hall wrote: One comment from reviewing the code - you use this comment at the top of both kittenc.c and kitten.c: > /* > This software is free software; free to use, > modify, pass to others, whatever >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3]

2021-08-06 Thread Aitor Santamaría
On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 at 21:11, Ralf Quint wrote: > > Insights from native english/american (English/American) people? > > > I learned this from my first English class in school, pretty much 50 > years ago... ;-) > > Sadly enough, get ready that it may change at any point quickly. When I was a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3]

2021-08-06 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Fri, 6 Aug 2021, tom ehlert wrote: Hi Robert, attaches the german resources to fdisk.exe, and makes german the default language for fdisk.exe. Minor note: AFAIK, correct spelling of "german" in English is "German" with a capital "G". Same for all other language "names". really? Like

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3]

2021-08-06 Thread tom ehlert
Hi Jim, > On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 1:02 PM tom ehlert wrote: >> it's intended to be as free as possible. I don't even care if the evil >> satan (MS or Oracle) uses, modifies or whatever does with it. > [..] > I know, license details are no fun. But they do serve a purpose to > protect us and make

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3]

2021-08-06 Thread Ralf Quint
On 8/6/2021 11:05 AM, tom ehlert wrote: Hi Robert, attaches the german resources to fdisk.exe, and makes german the default language for fdisk.exe. Minor note: AFAIK, correct spelling of "german" in English is "German" with a capital "G". Same for all other language "names". really? Like in

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for Fr eeDOS 1.3]

2021-08-06 Thread Jim Hall
On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 1:14 PM Bret Johnson wrote: > > > really? Like in 'Could you provide the German resources?' > > if true, I have done that wrong for the last 50 years. > > Insights from native english/american (English/American) people? > > In English, proper names (including things like

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3]

2021-08-06 Thread Andrew Bird via Freedos-devel
Hi Tom, On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 20:05:05 +0200 tom ehlert wrote: > Hi Robert, > > >> attaches the german resources to fdisk.exe, and makes german the > >> default language for fdisk.exe. > > > Minor note: AFAIK, correct spelling of "german" in English is > > "German" with a capital "G". Same for

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3]

2021-08-06 Thread Jim Hall
Jim Hall wrote: > >> One comment from reviewing the code - you use this comment at the top > >> of both kittenc.c and kitten.c: > >> > >>> /* > >>> This software is free software; free to use, > >>> modify, pass to others, whatever > >>> > >>> use it at your own risk > >>> */ > >>> > >> > >>

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3]

2021-08-06 Thread Robert Riebisch
Hi Mercury, > Yep, language names like German, French, Spanish, et. al are all > considered "proper nouns" and as such should be capitalized. :-) @Tom: "proper nouns" is what we translate to "Eigenname" in German. https://www.englishgrammar101.com/module-1/nouns/lesson-2/common-and-proper-nouns

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3]

2021-08-06 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel
Yep, language names like German, French, Spanish, et. al are all considered "proper nouns" and as such should be capitalized. :-) Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com/) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, August 6th, 2021 at 2:05 PM, tom ehlert

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3]

2021-08-06 Thread Robert Riebisch
Hi Tom, >>> attaches the german resources to fdisk.exe, and makes german the >>> default language for fdisk.exe. > >> Minor note: AFAIK, correct spelling of "german" in English is "German" >> with a capital "G". Same for all other language "names". > > really? Like in 'Could you provide the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for Fr eeDOS 1.3]

2021-08-06 Thread Bret Johnson
> really? Like in 'Could you provide the German resources?' > if true, I have done that wrong for the last 50 years. > Insights from native english/american (English/American) people? In English, proper names (including things like languages and countries) are almost always capitalized. I

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3]

2021-08-06 Thread tom ehlert
Hi Robert, >> attaches the german resources to fdisk.exe, and makes german the >> default language for fdisk.exe. > Minor note: AFAIK, correct spelling of "german" in English is "German" > with a capital "G". Same for all other language "names". really? Like in 'Could you provide the German

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3]

2021-08-06 Thread tom ehlert
Hi Robert, am Freitag, 6. August 2021 um 19:44 schrieben Sie: > Hi Jim, >> Good to see this update. I look forward to trying this out. >> >> One comment from reviewing the code - you use this comment at the top >> of both kittenc.c and kitten.c: >> >>> /* >>> This software is free software;

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3]

2021-08-06 Thread Robert Riebisch
Hi tom, > attaches the german resources to fdisk.exe, and makes german the > default language for fdisk.exe. Minor note: AFAIK, correct spelling of "german" in English is "German" with a capital "G". Same for all other language "names". Cheers, Robert -- +++ BTTR Software +++

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3]

2021-08-06 Thread Robert Riebisch
Hi Jim, > Good to see this update. I look forward to trying this out. > > One comment from reviewing the code - you use this comment at the top > of both kittenc.c and kitten.c: > >> /* >> This software is free software; free to use, >> modify, pass to others, whatever >> >> use it at