Comments on: GNOME in The 5th Wave http://bethesignal.org/blog/2007/06/18/gnome-in-the-5th-wave/ where we're going, we don't need roads... Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:58:05 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jdub http://bethesignal.org/blog/2007/06/18/gnome-in-the-5th-wave/#comment-1763 jdub Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:50:10 +0000 http://perkypants.org/blog/2007/06/18/gnome-in-the-5th-wave/#comment-1763 Those "obnoxcaps" are part of a trademark, and I have yet to see Sun do the wrong thing with our trademark in public. Grind your axe and curse the name all you want. But when you do... you'll spell it correctly! Those “obnoxcaps” are part of a trademark, and I have yet to see Sun do the wrong thing with our trademark in public. Grind your axe and curse the name all you want. But when you do… you’ll spell it correctly!

]]> By: Chris Cunningham http://bethesignal.org/blog/2007/06/18/gnome-in-the-5th-wave/#comment-1762 Chris Cunningham Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:39:13 +0000 http://perkypants.org/blog/2007/06/18/gnome-in-the-5th-wave/#comment-1762 The joke would have been lost on some quantity of viewers (i.e. those who don't already see gnome's obnoxcaps as a joke) if he hadn't. I'm proud to say that I've never seen any internal Sun docs which used the obnoxcaps in this case. And this is in the company which literally owns the concept of stupid, opaque, transigent acronyms. - Chris The joke would have been lost on some quantity of viewers (i.e. those who don’t already see gnome’s obnoxcaps as a joke) if he hadn’t.

I’m proud to say that I’ve never seen any internal Sun docs which used the obnoxcaps in this case. And this is in the company which literally owns the concept of stupid, opaque, transigent acronyms.

- Chris

]]> By: jdub http://bethesignal.org/blog/2007/06/18/gnome-in-the-5th-wave/#comment-1758 jdub Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:57:03 +0000 http://perkypants.org/blog/2007/06/18/gnome-in-the-5th-wave/#comment-1758 CHECK THAT OUT: Rich Tennant even gets the trademark capitalisation correct... and if comedy artist guy can, ANYONE CAN! SLACKERS! :-D CHECK THAT OUT: Rich Tennant even gets the trademark capitalisation correct… and if comedy artist guy can, ANYONE CAN! SLACKERS! :-D

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