Re: Microsoft and LUA

["Jay Carlson" <nop@...>]

"Asko Kauppi" <asko.kauppi@sci.fi> writes:

> It's no secret that MS actually uses Lua, but now they're trying to
> steal the name as well..
>
> "..when building desktop applications, make them LUA (Logical Unit
> Application programming interface) compliant." (http://www.osnews.com)

The actual microsoft article at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnlong/html/leastprivlh.asp
expands LUA as "Least-privilege User Account".  Somebody at osnews ran "LUA"
through an acronym-expander and got "Logical Unit Application".

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/network/commserver/z_lin/library/v6010/luapg00.htm

I had hoped to forget about LU6.2 and the rest of the Blue Glue forever.

> Anything we can do about it?

Whine at them to spell it as "LPUA".  Hey, at least nobody is going to be
talking about the IBM SNA LUA as the hot new thing (cross fingers).

Jay