>	I ignored looking into it for months expecting it to be a Linux
>patch. I can not be alone in that. Simply calling it a patch
>suggests it is beyond the interest of any Windows user. 

The word 'patch' has been used since long before linux was ever though of.

>	You will get a wider audience, and you have by one person, if
>you find a different way to refer to it. 

It is a patch, why call it something else?


There will always be terminology problems amongst computer users, the
important thing to remember is that 'the next guy' is just as right as you
are.

(Another great example is the word 'bitmap'. Many poeple confuse the word
with 'windows pictures'. In fact, the .bmp was first seen in OS/2. But that
still doesn't mean that a 'bitmap' is an 'OS/2 picture'. A bitmap is a bit
map. A map of bits. IBM do in fact in their developer docs mention that it's
not a good thing to call the OS/2 basic graphics format 'bitmap', because
that could in fact be just about any formats).

So.. Get used to not being pleased all the time. :-)


 /j

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