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Oh Ok, I cna't give you acorrect answer, as both look right and wrong to me.
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Right - so in this instance the apostrophe is marking the suppression of the 'e'
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ah. ok. thanks
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So do you pronounce it the same ?
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Colin J Davies
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I don't know if I buy that one. Which two words are you concatenating, OS and es?
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er...
Look over there! <runs the other direction quickly>
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Apostrophes have two purposes:
1) For use in contractions, to represent a missing letter or letters. For instance, the apostrophe in "I'm" represents the missing "a" ("I am"); the apostrophe in doesn't" represents the missing "o" in "does not."
2) To show possession. To make a noun (or nonpossessive pronoun) that does not end in "s" possessive, add apostrophe and "s" ['s]. If the word does end in "s," simply add an apostrophe after it.
Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day
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When one is referring to multiple operating systems, one should use "OSes" to indicate the plurality. One could argue, though, that "OSs" is also a valid plural. "OS's" indicates a possession of an operating system.
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... really i'd vote 2 AND 3 if there was such an option. An OS should be modular; but i don't see how it is possible to force MS er, companies to Do The Right Thing.
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As I read it the options 2, and 3 are exclusive.
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Colin Davies wrote:
As I read it the options 2, and 3 are exclusive.
Probably they are meant to be. All i meant was:
The company writing the OS should be free include any functionality and modularity they choose. And they should choose to write an OS that comes with helpful applications that can be replaced by others.
Wishful thinking, i know. 
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It seems to me that two questions are being asked in the one survey:
1) Wouldn;t it be nice if companies did ________.
2) The law should make a company do ________.
So really the survey is asking us to choose between preference, and what we think the law states.
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It's deliberately slightly ambiguous. Here's 2 ways of thinking about it:
2) I want companies to willingly make modular operating systems
3) I want companies to be free to build and market as they choose
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2) There should be laws forcing modular OSs
3) There should not be laws producting the rights to development freely
There are so many ways to look at this: from issues involving the freedom to create your products as you choose, anti-trust and the power of a monopoly, whether or not you want your government to decide what sort of software you can buy, and fears of potential code bloat, version fragmentation and potential instability, reduced functionality and performance if all companies are forced to create modular operating systems.
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Chris Maunder wrote:
It's deliberately slightly ambiguous.
I think that will make for a controversial and interesting survey this week then. Everybody will be arguing apples and oranges.
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My work is done then
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Chris Maunder
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Shog9 wrote:
An OS should be modular; but i don't see how it is possible to force MS er, companies to Do The Right Thing.
Sure there is. If it is truly a bad thing, everyone can get fed up and start running Linux. That is how a capitalistic society should work.
-Jack
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To a pessimist the glass is half empty.
To a programmer the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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Yeah even though Linux is basically free nobody still wants to use it. Maybe they should pay people to install it.
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Are there really only 3 alternatives to this ?
Also are we confusing the OS with the Shell as well ?
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Colin J Davies
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Well, I am glad he didn't add the [text] option which is badly abused by a lot of people
Nish
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Yes its a pity the text responses are so badly abused.
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Nish [BusterBoy] wrote:
Well, I am glad he didn't add the [text] option which is badly abused by a lot of people
I might just be naive here, but in what way were they abused?
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Jeremy Davis wrote:
but in what way were they abused?
Well, people type in all sorts of absurdities into the text box.
Nish
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Yes, but you gotta admit that a lot of those absurdities are downright amusing. So, I'm all for it.
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Alvaro
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1) Limiting the choices means more discussions.
2) It's up to you to decide where one starts and the other finishes 
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Chris Maunder
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