I see this often, even in media articles by varied writers: the proper company "Linden Lab" spelled as "Linden Labs" with an extra "s". Is it a big deal? No. Am I a ruthless grammarian with a splintered ruler? Formerly, 10 years ago. Does it matter? Yes. Is it hard to correct? No. Is it bizarre? Most certainly yes, for all the times it's happened: I can't pass it off as coincidence, but conductive influence, since a number of popular, plural "labs" exist. Like Google Labs, Adobe Labs, and so on.
The most positive way I see it is to look at these writers exerting hopeful prophecy: that may be pushing it, but it'll also be useful when we have multiple LL offices around the world, like Wolfram & Hart did in Angel.
But — with less undead bureaucracy.
Related, while searching for the aforementioned, I came across Atlassian's JIRA Case Study: Linden Lab. Hadn't seen this article brought up earlier, but it's a good read if you want to know more 'bout LL's internal project managing. 'Twas also mentioned on the Atlassian blog. I use the software daily at work. A couple quotes from El Presidente to get creative minds churning:
where all Second Life end users can be qualifying, linking, and processing bugs.
We believe people should have the same
priorities around having a good time at work as they do in their free time.
Love it!
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Fully agree on that one Torley… for me it's like the nails on the blackboard…
… I see this a lot at Apple to
…It's Apple Computer – or just Apple, not Apple Computers
…and it's Mac OS X (ten), not X (ecks)
lol
Aye, part of the Mac OS X confusion comes when you see something like the following:
Mac OS X 10.4.8
And on Apple's own site too.
Hrmmm…
Hey Torley, just a quick question about the settings on the Audacity program. when i set the sample rate at 42hz my audio then becomes high pitched. can you help??
Language has a will of it's own (and I write this as a translator) because people, not institutions, make language. So if we all say Linden Labs, it's Linden Labs.
Take my native country. Holland? The Netherlands? And we are "Dutch"? What's up with that? Holland is the western part of The Netherlands, with Amsterdam and The Hague. The rest of the country is not Holland and some would even be offended if you say it is. It's The Netherlands.
And why are we "Dutch"? It's an anglified version of Deutsch, the German word for "German". Umm, hello, we are not Germans! We don't like to be called Germans. Some would even say they hate Germans (not me, but the sentiment is widespread).
But there is nothing you can do about these things. I am Dutch, I was born in Holland (which, incidentally, is correct) and you work for Linden Labs. Swallow it, or keep getting frustrated over it. The choice is yours.