This has got to drive RMS nuts

[L.B. MCCULLEY]

I would not be so quick to dismiss the possibility of
conscious acronym overloading on the part of a company who
supposedly considered the application of the HAL naming
algorithm (IBM+1) in naming Windows NT (VMS+1, kudos to o/s
software mage Dave Cutler).  The hypothetical impact on the
psyche of the carbon-based lifeform RMS from the silicon-based
reference antithetical to his beliefs would probably provide
great amusement amongst the minions of Redmond...

---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:15:20 -0500 (EST)
>From: Benjamin Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>  
>Subject: Re: This has got to drive RMS nuts  
>To: Greater NH Linux User Group <gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org>
>
>On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, at 10:13pm, greg at freephile.com wrote:
>> I just noticed that Microsoft has used the acronym 'RMS' to
stand for
>> 'Rights Management Services'[1].  That has got to drive the
real RMS nuts.
>
>  I highly doubt Windows Rights Management Services has any
connection at
>all to Richard Matthew Stallman.  You're talking about a
company that once
>launched a major marketing campaign based on the term
"Digital Nervous
>System", only to have the whole thing sputter and die when
someone pointed
>out that "DNS" was already taken...
>
>  "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately
explained by
>stupidity."
>
>-- 
>Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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