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| | | (...) Nope, keep LDraw capitalized as-is. That's how James named it, that's how it's copyrighted, that's the trademark, that's how it'll stay. End of story. IMO, "Foundation" conjures up images of a non-profit institution (a plus) which dabbles in (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: Foundations (Was: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings) —Terry Keller
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| | | | | (...) Jeremy beat me to it with the definition. I don't have a strong objection to "Foundation", but to me it has connotations of a funded organization that contributes monies to various causes. Heck, just read the definition. That somehow, to me at (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: Foundations (Was: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings) —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | | | (...) Hey, let's go! I got my pirhana bait and my candiru repellant, my hairnet and my blowgun. What else do you need? Though a Rio player would be kinda cool, going down the Orinoco. Pun intended. :-P Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Foundations (Was: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings) —Terry Keller
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| | | | | | | | | (...) I thought you _were_ the pirhana bait. :-P (...) Ouch. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Foundations (Was: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings) —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) ...Would that make you the candiru repellant? Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Foundations (Was: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings) —Terry Keller
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Touche' :-) -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 17-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Foundations (Was: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings) —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | | | | (...) Listening to certain song by Enya, of course. ;) Jeff (26 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: Foundations (Was: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings) —Patrick Sayre-Little
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| | | | | | (...) On the other hand, "The Foundation" at Cal Poly is the main controlling agency on campus. People tend to say "Foundation" with a very negative tone, mainly due to thier ridiculusly anal procedures and policies; despite the fact that they pay (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Foundations (Was: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings) —Terry Keller
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| | | | | | (...) Hmm... it sounds like you are subtly insulting us. :-) -- Terry K -- Overlord, Office of Ridiculously Anal Procedures. (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Foundations (Was: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings) —Patrick Sayre-Little
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| | | | | | (...) I didn't intend it that way. I was just pointing out that "Foundation" doesn't have to mean a charitable organization. (...) I _definately_ didn't want to imply that. :) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: Foundations (Was: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings) —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | (...) connotations (...) just (...) And (...) And (...) I agree. If 'Foundation' is going to throw people off and possibly be misleading, than I wouldn't want the site to be called that. (...) Ok, yep, if we use it in the context of a title or (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Capitalization of LDraw & LEdit —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | (...) Some additional data points, for the record: 1) The LDraw FAQ document and Bram's LDraw & LEdit tutorial, (2 URLs) both say LDraw and LEdit everywhere, except when mentioning executable filenames. 2) The ldraw.doc file that came with the (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: Capitalization of LDraw & LEdit —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | | | (...) I wonder what kind of latitude we have here with filenames? I am thinking of what Larry Wall says about capitalization of Perl, something like "Perl" is the name of the language, "perl" is the utility you use for that language. In using LDraw (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: Capitalization of LDraw & LEdit —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | | (...) Again, I would keep filenames all lowercase since issues with operating systems could come up. Keep Building!! -Tim <>< (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 You've seen their sites and read their posts, now see their faces: RTL/LUGNET Legofest 1999: (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: Capitalization of LDraw & LEdit —Tim Courtney
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| | | | (...) [...] Ok, I do get it. But I did make a mistake in my original post that caused Sproat to jump on it... I meant to say that I would keep the domain name 'ldraw.org' in lower case not change it all to 'ldraw' or refuse to capitalize certain (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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