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Re: Foundations (Was: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings)
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Wed, 14 Apr 1999 11:49:23 GMT
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At 11:02 AM 4/14/99 +0000, Terry K wrote:
> 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 least, does not seem to reflect what we are doing. • And
> even might be a little misleading. An outsider hearing of the "LDraw
> Foundation" could well get a wrong impression of what it is. Foundations are
> what support programming on PBS. And send deserving students to college. • And
> underwrite environmental research expedetions to Amazon rainforests.
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> It just does not ring true.
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.
> -- Terry K --
> BTW, I agree with Jeremy, that the spelling should be LDraw - for Lego Draw.
> At least in graphics and titles and such.
Ok, yep, if we use it in the context of a title or header, or even in the
text. But when referring to *domain names* I strongly object to using
capital letters in a domain name. So I would not like it referred to as
www.LDraw.Org - since that incorporates caps into the domain. However,
www.ldraw.org would sit just fine with me.
This is just one more step along the path of the oversimplification of the
web, getting rid of things like domain names that browsers display and
going more towards actaul words for url's... like:
Lego - instead of www.lego.com
Balman Labs - instead of www.balmanlabs.com
Zacktron - instead of www.zacktron.com
LDraw - instead of www.ldraw.org
It seems to me that five or ten years down the road the web will appear to
be more like AOL with channels, popups, and all the other stuff they offer
versus actual pages and urls and such.
Ahh...the nostalgia of the internet before it was stupidized... :)
My $.02
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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