[haiku] Re: New Haiku flier - Draft 1 for review

  • From: "Humdinger" <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:34:43 +0100

-- Urias McCullough, on Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:35:06 -0800:
--"The BeOS"
> I have pondered this in the past myself, but I also have come to the
> conclusion that calling it "the BeOS" is better. As you said, it's 
> not
> incorrect, and for you perhaps it just sounds funny, but to me it
> sounds as if it BeOS is being raised to a higher level than just
> another OS name - and I think that's not a bad thing.

I'm quite sure that Be Inc. has emphasized on various occasions that 
it's "the BeOS". I can't come up with an official document on that 
right now. All I could find is the foreword of JLG for the BeOS Bible 
at http://www.birdhouse.org/beos/bible/about.html, in which it's always 
"the BeOS".

Regards,
Humdinger

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