RE: Did we have another name change?

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: James Rich
> 
> > Since I to write articles, I really wish they'd use an upper case letter
> for
> > the first letter.  It's tough to constantly convince word processors
> that
> > you MEANT to leave the first letter of the sentence lower case.  Of
> course,
> > "System i" with a standalone lower case "i" just confuses them mightily
> as
> > well.
> 
> I prefer to use software that doesn't annoy me and does what I tell it to
> do instead of what it thinks I might want.  If I want a letter capitalized
> I will capitalize it.  Software is not supposed to control my life or my
> spelling.  Let's not blame the english language or its evolution, but
> instead let us focus on the problem:  poor software.

Now, now, James.  At no time did was I blaming the English language.  I was
blaming IBM for a really poor name on several fronts, not just the spelling
issue.  For example, your opinion about software doesn't help with the line
break between "System" and "i", unless of course you use software that
doesn't word wrap at the end of the line.  (That's possible, I suppose,
since you only want the software to do what you tell it to.)

And of course, it does nothing to help with the fact that the possessive and
plural forms are the same, unless we go to Systems i.

Testy people ... must be Monday. <g>

Joe