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"(Disclaimer: I work at MS. I do work on windows.)" A minor nitpick: I thought that you call this "disclosure" in English, not "disclaimer"? (I'm not a native
by gngeal 14y ago
"(Disclaimer: I work at MS. I do work on windows.)"
A minor nitpick: I thought that you call this "disclosure" in English, not "disclaimer"? (I'm not a native speaker, which is why I may be easily wrong, but something is nudging me to ask when I see things that seem wrong to me.)
- Lewisham 14y agoDisclosure refers to the act of saying he's from MS. Disclaimer means that you should read what he says knowing that he might have a bias, because he's from MS. As they both result in the same thing (you need to read what he says understanding he may be biased), you'll see them both used. I usually use Disclaimer, but there's no real reason for that.
- bvk 14y agoThey both work in this context. A disclaimer is a piece of text a person or company writes to avoid responsibility. In the GPL, there's text saying that the program is distributed without any warranty - that's a disclaimer. If someone sues you because the program broke, you can point to the disclaimer to show you never claimed that it would work. Disclosure is just revealing information. That parenthesized remark was disclosure (because the author revealed his affiliation with Microsoft) but it was also a disclaimer - because of that text, no one can claim that the author was astroturfing.