Re: File's Owner

FROM : Gary L. Wade
DATE : Tue May 27 23:55:16 2008

Alex Kac wrote:
> I liked "Nib's Owner". It keeps with the "owner" tag, but makes it more
> clear.


True, but the use of NIB vs. File may be a historical set-in-stone thing
that never changed since the NIB is the File (conceptually, of course,
since a NIB is a directory with three files), and everyone early on knew
that.

And for anyone who might still be having issues with differentiating the
loader of the NIB vs. the owner as assigned, a way to think of this is
what happens in the real world when a person creates a company but
assigns legal ownership of it to his/her child.  The creator of the
company could have kept ownership, but through a deliberate decision,
that ownership is transferred to the child.  And, as with all types of
businesses, not all owners are involved in the same capacity (think of a
mom-and-pop restaurant owner vs. Steve Jobs vs. Meg Ryan as a bookstore
owner in You've Got Mail), so that's one way you might conceptualize the
generality of File's Owner.