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bug#10421: Don't use the abbreviation "win" to refer to Windows.


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#10421: Don't use the abbreviation "win" to refer to Windows.
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:24:10 -0800
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Deniz Dogan writes:
> Out of curiosity, why is this important?

We don't want GNU code to be praising Microsoft Windows.
This is part of the GNU coding standards
<http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Trademarks.html>.

The immediate prompt for this bug report was a recent
email sent to the Emacs developers' mailing list
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-01/msg00029.html>.





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