From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Cc: 73265@debbugs.gnu.org, fxn@hashref.com, eliz@gnu.org
Subject: bug#73265: Spelling of macOS
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:56:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1srVgc-0006yZ-I6@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmnsp+_kD7fjGgv13VS_-teCG10vOZkV36Xipb6NKOcy=A@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:11:02 -0700)
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> The main reason is actually because the old way of writing it is
> "Mac OS" (1984-2000) or "Mac OS X"/"OS X" (2000-2016)
I write it MacOS, which is different from all the ways Apple
reportedly wries it. It follows normal practice -- where Apple
apparently never did.
That seems ideal.
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2024-09-15 7:11 bug#73265: Spelling of macOS Xavier Noria via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-15 7:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-15 8:04 ` Xavier Noria via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-15 8:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-15 8:49 ` Xavier Noria via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-15 9:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-21 10:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-21 13:14 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-21 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-21 13:53 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-15 11:50 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-09-15 12:02 ` Xavier Noria via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-15 12:05 ` Xavier Noria via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-18 3:53 ` Richard Stallman
2024-09-18 4:09 ` Xavier Noria via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-18 23:11 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-09-20 4:56 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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