Re: De-install/Un-install/Uninstall?

Subject: Re: De-install/Un-install/Uninstall?
From: "Wayne J. Douglass" <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 10:30:19 -0800

At 10:22 AM 4/4/97 -0700, Margaret Packman wrote:

>OTOH, in the Win 3.x version, we're keeping the name "Remove" because
>"Uninstall" has too many letters. What's that quote about consistency and
>hobgoblins?

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." The good news in
this context is that inconsistency is not foolish. Ralph Waldo Emerson would
approve.

--Wayne Douglass

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