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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@smmpk17.eng.Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: Just a little anti-MS, maybe...
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>     If you install support for Windows, please don't call it "win32".
>     Please call it "Windows", not "win".  "Win" is a term of praise, and
>     the GNU policy is not to praise Microsoft Windows.
> 
> As I am not a native English speaker, it took me a few minutes before
> I realized what the hell he was talking about.

The real truth is that you are not a native speaker of MIT hackish.
From the jargon file, (http://www.ccil.org/~esr/)


:win:  [MIT] 1. /vi./ To succeed.  A program wins if no
   unexpected conditions arise, or (especially) if it sufficiently
   {robust} to take exceptions in stride.  2. /n./ Success, or a
   specific instance thereof.  A pleasing outcome.  "So it turned out
   I could use a {lexer} generator instead of hand-coding my own
   pattern recognizer.  What a win!"  Emphatic forms: `moby win',
   `super win', `hyper-win' (often used interjectively as a
   reply).  For some reason `suitable win' is also common at MIT,
   usually in reference to a satisfactory solution to a problem.
   Oppose {lose}; see also {big win}, which isn't quite just an
   intensification of `win'.


:win big: /vi./  To experience serendipity.  "I went shopping
   and won big; there was a 2-for-1 sale."  See {big win}.

:win win: /excl./ Expresses pleasure at a {win}.


:big win: /n./  Serendipity.  "Yes, those two physicists
   discovered high-temperature superconductivity in a batch of ceramic
   that had been prepared incorrectly according to their experimental
   schedule.  Small mistake; big win!" See {win big}.


