Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/dev/pci
To: None <source-changes@NetBSD.org>
From: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 11/15/2004 12:22:35
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:23:20AM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> Soren S. Jorvang wrote:
> >
> > Module Name: src
> > Committed By: soren
> > Date: Sun Nov 14 15:23:42 UTC 2004
> >
> > Modified Files:
> > src/sys/dev/pci: pcidevs
> >
> > Log Message:
> > [...]
> > Shorten ATI Technologies to ATI.
>
> I'm not sure if this is a right change since long ("more formal")
> company names have been preferred. If it is, we should shorten many
> other names such as VIA Technologies, Apple Computer, Lucent
> Technologies, etc. as well.
I agree with Bang Jun-Young. It's convenient to have the name written
in full for research---consider that the most selective strings to put
into a google.com query box are not "Apple" and "VIA". You don't want
your sources indexed by those words alone, either.
Dave
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