[wp-hackers] wp-hackers Digest, Vol 66, Issue 18

[Elizabeth Buckwalter]

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 3:14 AM,
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>   1. Re: Putting the P in WordPress (Matt Mullenweg)
>   2. Re: Putting the P in WordPress (Joaquin Rodriguez Montero)
>   3. Re: Putting the P in WordPress (mrmist)
>   4. Re: Putting the P in WordPress (Harry Metcalfe)
>   5. Re: Putting the P in WordPress (Gavin Pearce)
>   6. Re: wp_mail_from and wp_mail_from_name (Simon Blackbourn)
>   7. Re: Putting the P in WordPress (Mike Little)
>   8. Re: Putting the P in WordPress (Ben Huson)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:19:44 -0400
> From: Matt Mullenweg <m at mullenweg.com>
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> On 7/5/2010 11:46 PM, Jeff Jason wrote:
>> Why don't people care a little more about implementation and design
>> decisions that actually matter.
>
> You're completely right. The more trivial the topic, the more people
> likely to have an opinion, because it's easier to do so.

Just emphasizing.

> --
> Matt Mullenweg
> http://ma.tt | http://wordpress.org | http://automattic.com

[snip]

> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 10:53:24 +0100
> From: Mike Little <wordpress at zed1.com>
>
> On 6 July 2010 10:32, Gavin Pearce <Gavin.Pearce at 3seven9.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> 1) The vast majority of people seem to be in favor for it being removed
>> (REF# TRAC, this thread, forums).
>>
> A problem here, is that anyone thinks 20 people in an email conversation is
> a 'vast majority'. It quite simply is not. So the vast majority *of
> WordPress users* have no opinion on this.

It would be correct to say vast majority.  As you can rarely get every
one's opinion, you must settle for a subset.  Because WordPress's
support/conversation is well established in the forums, here, and in
Trac, if most of the people in the subset *don't* like something , you
can be sure that most WordPress users *don't* like it either.

[snip]

>> At the end of the day who CARES if WordPress is Wordpress, Wordress,
>> wordPress or anything else -
>
>
> As has been pointed out on this thread, WordPress is a trademark, and as
> such *must* be actively protected, otherwise the trademark status will be
> lost.

On my iPhone, when I type 'iphone' the little box comes up and my text
is replaced with 'iPhone'.  However, I can *choose* to hit the little
x, the little box will go away, and I am left with 'iphone'.  I like
the *choice*, because maybe I don't like CamelCase, and I'll type
Camelcase, because I don't want to hit the shift key in the middle of
the word.  If a little box pops up with the CamelCase version, then
I'd go with it, but no disrespect intended Camelcase is just easier.

>
> Mike
> --
> Mike Little
> http://zed1.com/
>

[snip]

-- 
Thanks,
Elizabeth Buckwalter