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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Gnumed, GNUmed, GNUMed


From: Tim Churches
Subject: Re: [Gnumed-devel] Gnumed, GNUmed, GNUMed
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:28:10 +1100
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Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It's the little things that make a release. Well actually not but I thought
> it sounded cool:-)
> 
> What is the official and forever to be used spelling for Gnumed, GNUmed,
> GNUMed,GnuMed ?
> 
> I would go for GnuMed or GNUMed.
> 
> I want to introduce some consistency here for marketing purposes.

I have wondered that too. But since "GNU" is a recursive acronym, and
acronyms are by convention in uppercase, the choices (if you adhere to
convention) are either GNUmed or GNUMed. I like the former. Looks nicer.

Tim C





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