I agree it's worth the effort of taking out 'vendor' of our vocabulary. Between Independent Software Developer or Third-party Developer I would go for the first option, because it is more self-explanatory. You understand what a third-party developer is if you first understand what first-party and second-party developers are. In GNOME we donpt talk usually about first-party and second-party developers AFAIK (I have only heard of beer-parties). But we talsk about GNOME developers and GNOME hackers, in this context I find more appropriate Independent Software Developer and the acronym ISD (I agree that the proximity with the currently used ISV is a +1). -- Quim Gil - http://desdeamericaconamor.org
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