houghi wrote:
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 08:20:53PM +0100, Thomas Hertweck wrote:
But maybe Novell was already planning for the future and there is a good reason for calling this process "registration"... ;-)
So how would you call the process then where a system registers data, like the data that is collected by SUSE?
I can help you out:
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "registration": booking, cataloging, chronicling, enlistment, enrollment, entering, entry, filing, impanelment, indexing, inscribing, inscription, insertion, inventorying, itemization, listing, logging, matriculation, posting, record keeping, recordation, recording, register, registry, tabulation
I like "recordation" best because it sounds so much like 'New Speech'. What you are actually saying is "registration" always is the registration of people and will be used in a bad way.
If that is the case, welcome to 1984, because it already is too late.
Most of the time it's not worth discussing anything with you because you render each and every discussion useless. You've seen my emails and what you quote there is one comment with a smilie. If you don't try to understand the context of emails and if you focus on parts that are less important, then you didn't get the point and in principle it's just not even worth replying. The discussion has nothing to do with 1984 or paranoia or something like that. If you're happy with the current situation, well that's fine for you. You should, however, accept that other people have a different opinion which might be (at least) as noteworthy as yours. The word "registration" is usually used for a certain process (very well known from the Windows world). In SUSE 10.1, the same terminology is used for another process which does something different. However, users are sometimes not aware of this because they have a certain association when reading the term "registration" (I've already explained all of that in my last email, so I won't repeat it here) - therefore, some people are suspicious and feel uneasy and unhappy with that process (scan the archives of mailing lists over the last five days and you will recognize it). According to your definition, we could just call every internet connection a registration process because first of all I need to register with my ISP. Sorry, Houghi, but I think that's nonsense - I don't call that a registration process, I call it e.g. a "dial in" process. That's what it is. When the process that is currently called "registration" in SUSE 10.1 is mainly a replacement for the YOU setup (download of mirror lists etc.), then it should be called "mirror configuration" or something like that. I didn't carefully think about this terminology now so I don't know whether it's a correct one, I don't even know whether it's a better one, it just came to my mind... It's not the first time we have seen some strange terminology being used. With 10.0, the DVD with 3rd party software was called an "evaluation" version. Many people did get a wrong impression because of that name and they were confused (again, this statement is easy to prove by scanning mailing list archives). So if something similar happens again, I think it's worth pointing out this problem. And that's what I did. We can't change it (only Novell can do that) and Novell might have had a good reason to call it registration. So be it! Cheers, Th.