[MLB-WIRELESS] Le craiefiti

[Barry Park]

If anyone's au fait with Francaise, the original text is at
http://www.wifi-montauban.net/communaute/index.php/CraieFiti

French break with 802.11 standard
By Andrew Orlowski in London
Posted: 24/07/2002 at 14:01 GMT

Rightly suspicious of an Anglo-Saxon conspiracy, French Wi-Fi enthusiasts
have broken with an emerging wireless standard.

Actually, it's not any technical standard they object to, but the emerging
"warchalking" terminology, by which enthusiasts alert the public to open
access 802.11 networks. The French prefer not to use the unlovely term
"warchalking" to describe these notations, but have instead coined a far
more preferable alternative. It's "Le Craiefiti", and you can read about it
here, or download the PDF[154k] here.

We hope it catches on. There are occasions when almost anything is
preferable to the English language, as twenty years' of confusion over the
meaning of "free" software (speech! beer!) proves. Although why the French
can't do the decent thing, like everybody else and become a huge American
shopping mall (and occasional USAF landing strip), we really don't know.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/59/26353.html



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