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charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 5:53=E2=80=AFAM Richard Stallman wrot= e: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > We should write it "MacOS", following the normal convention of proper > names in written English, because we have no reason to depart from it. > On general principles, in the absence of any reason why we would want > to depart from them, it is good to follow such conventions. > > The only proposed reason to write "macOS" is that Apple asks for it. > Since Apple is an enemy of the GNU GPL, and an enemy of computer > users' freedom generally, a request from Apple is for us no reason at > all. No. "macOS" should be written "macOS" because that is the name of the operating system. There are no further considerations to this. As you know, brand names are not English words and do not abide by their rules. "eBay" is "eBay" and "BMW" is "BMW". It's OK. I was only trying to help, assuming you'd like to know. Once you are aware of this, it is your call. We can close this issue folks. --000000000000cc61bd06225cfce6 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 5:53=E2=80=AFAM R= ichard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrot= e:

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents read= ing my email: please consider=C2=A0 =C2=A0 ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,=C2=A0 =C2=A0= =C2=A0]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]<= br>
We should write it "MacOS", following the normal convention of pr= oper
names in written English, because we have no reason to depart from it.
On general principles, in the absence of any reason why we would want
to depart from them, it is good to follow such conventions.

The only proposed reason to write "macOS" is that Apple asks for = it.
Since Apple is an enemy of the GNU GPL, and an enemy of computer
users' freedom generally, a request from Apple is for us no reason at all.

No.

"mac= OS" should be written "macOS" because that is the name of th= e operating system. There are no further considerations to this.
=
As you know, brand names are not English words and do not ab= ide by their rules. "eBay" is "eBay" and "BMW"= ; is "BMW".

It's OK. I was only tryi= ng to help, assuming you'd like to know. Once you are aware of this, it= is your call.

We can close this issue folks.
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