Re: CVS commit: src/sys/dev/pci

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:23:20AM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> Soren S. Jorvang wrote:
> > 
> > Module Name:        src
> > Committed By:       soren
> > Date:               Sun Nov 14 15:23:42 UTC 2004
> > 
> > Modified Files:
> >     src/sys/dev/pci: pcidevs
> > 
> > Log Message:
> > [...]
> > Shorten ATI Technologies to ATI.
> 
> I'm not sure if this is a right change since long ("more formal")
> company names have been preferred. If it is, we should shorten many
> other names such as VIA Technologies, Apple Computer, Lucent
> Technologies, etc. as well.

I agree with Bang Jun-Young.  It's convenient to have the name written
in full for research---consider that the most selective strings to put
into a google.com query box are not "Apple" and "VIA".  You don't want
your sources indexed by those words alone, either.

Dave

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