wxWindows changes name

Piet van Oostrum piet at cs.uu.nl
Tue Mar 2 04:08:16 EST 2004


>>>>> "Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)" <wmwd2zz02 at sneakemail.com> (GE) wrote:

GE> Asun Friere wrote:
>> The fear of genericity explains why Xerox
>> launched a big campaign to introduce the word 'photocopying' (instead
>> of 'xeroxing')

GE> Aha! So we should all start using the term "windowing" to
GE> mean the act of using a computer (of any brand) with a GUI,
GE> and promote the use of this term at every chance we get...

No, it should be "windowsing" to be effective :=)
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