Customer vs Company

[Linas Vepstas]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 11:06:09PM -0500, Derek Atkins was heard to remark:
> Retracile <retracile at earthlink.net> writes:
> 
> > My wife teaches private music lessons.  So all her customers are individuals, 
> > not companies.  Hmm, perhaps I should use the term 'client'?
> > I can see vendors always being a company, if only a sole-propietorship.
> 
> > One of the things that bothers me is that you have to give a company name, and 
> > a contact name.  When dealing with an individual,
> 
> Sorry, that's not going to change.

If Eli is able to write new code, then maybe the following would be a reasonable
compromise:  

-- add a 'style mode' to the preferences.
-- change many occurrances of _("Company") to COMPANY_STR
-- #define COMPANY_STR  (style==INDIV)? _("Company") : _("Client")

There are some serious drawbacks (e.g. confusion in documentation & trnaslation)
for having alternate labels for things. But its a thought ...

--linas



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