[haiku] Re: Updated website pages online for peer review
- From: "Nigel Malthus" <malthi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:16:08 +1200 NZST
Humdinger wrote:
> Nigel Malthus wrote:
>
> >> This is a bit of an interpretation after the fact, innit? Like
> >> throwing darts at a wall
> >> and then painting targets around those that stuck. :)
>
> > Post-hoc reasoning on my part? Yes, guilty as charged! :-)
> > Doesn't mean my conclusion is wrong, though. Looking back, wasn't
> > it an
> > inspired choice? Let's call it the wisdom of crowds.
>
> Well, it sure is your conclusion, but it's based on conjecture. :)
> If it really is a FAQ, just open with "The name "Haiku" was chosen
> from 15 suggestions in
> a poll back in 2002. A fitting name for our OS, as it turns out..."
> then go on with the
> explanation.
>
> Regards,
> Humdinger
>
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Yep, that's fair enough.
Over and out. :-)
--
Nigel Malthus,
Christchurch, NZ.
"The only real way to look younger is not to be born so soon."
-- Charles Schulz, "Things I've Had to Learn Over and
Over and Over"
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