On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 23:41:14 +0200
lee <lee(a)yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
Joe Zeff <joe(a)zeff.us> writes:
> On 07/28/2013 08:03 AM, lee wrote:
>> However, when I look at online dictionaries, they say that
>> "disabled" refers to people the abilities of which are somehow
>> limited, so that word won't be applicable here at all. Services
>> are not people, and it is a bad idea to use misleading terms like
>> this.
>
> In English, words often have more than one meaning, depending on
> context. In a computer context, the word means that something has
> been turned off and isn't available for use.
That's exactly what I mean. That something is _not_ turned off and
still available for use _despite_ it has been disabled, then that is a
bug.
I'm not a native English speaker, that's why I referred to
dictionaries.
The author of systemd (Lennart Poettering) is also not a native English
speaker. If you can convince him that your knowledge of English is
better than his own, he might even listen to your suggestions.
However, I doubt that the existing terminology would be changed, since
people got used to the current one by now, and I believe it would be
impossible to switch without a major confusion among a lot of people.
HTH, :-)
Marko