For quite a while now, both the xs' and xs's forms have been taught in beginner and college english, and both are in widespread use.
My understanding is that it depends on the plurality of the word. Jobs is singular, so you add the apostrophe and the s, e.g., Jobs's ire. However, take developers. That is plural, so you drop the s, e.g., developers' ire.
I install things such as Java, MP3 and DVD players, Flash, Crossover Office,
What do those programs have to do with whether the operating system should be called GNU/Linux or just Linux?
Regardless of one's informed opinion on what the nature of an operating system is and what program(s) is(are) included, those programs are certainly not part of the equation.
OK, replace the following programs in your non-GNU distro:
Autoconf, Automake, Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, gnu cpio, diffutils, Emacs, fileutils, gnu finger, g++, gawk, gcc, gdb, glibc, gnu tar, gnupg, groff, gzip, mailman, mailutils, gnu make, ncurses, patch, screen, shellutils, texinfo, textutils, wget, which
And those are only a handful; there are many more. And those are just the ones that jumped out at me. And keep in mind some are packages of more programs, namely binutils, coreutils, etc. For more info, go here.
You know I find it interesting that on a standards-compliant acid test site, the HTML is not standards compliant. At least, I got 14 warnings from TIDY. That's funny.
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What do those programs have to do with whether the operating system should be called GNU/Linux or just Linux?
Regardless of one's informed opinion on what the nature of an operating system is and what program(s) is(are) included, those programs are certainly not part of the equation.
-jab3Autoconf, Automake, Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, gnu cpio, diffutils, Emacs, fileutils, gnu finger, g++, gawk, gcc, gdb, glibc, gnu tar, gnupg, groff, gzip, mailman, mailutils, gnu make, ncurses, patch, screen, shellutils, texinfo, textutils, wget, which
And those are only a handful; there are many more. And those are just the ones that jumped out at me. And keep in mind some are packages of more programs, namely binutils, coreutils, etc. For more info, go here.
-jab3You know I find it interesting that on a standards-compliant acid test site, the HTML is not standards compliant. At least, I got 14 warnings from TIDY. That's funny.
Before you quote Socractes and JTB, read Gettier's response to it. Give you some persepective on the problems of JTB and epistemology.