[domenicd]

(I wrote those words originally.)

Wow. I had no idea that people would misinterpret what I was saying in this way. I was not meaning to imply it was an expectation of users or developers. I was meaning it as a statement of what was currently a growing industry trend by OS and browser vendors, of shipping or preparing to ship LMs.

By now the statement could probably be amended from "expected to gain access to" to "shipping with".

I hope the team maintaining the project now makes such an update, since apparently it's confusing so many people!

[singron]

I thought it was clear and am also surprised by the reaction (en-US speaker). "Is/are expected" is generally used as a passive-voiced form of "we/they predict" (obviously without having to specify a specific pronoun). E.g. "It's expected to rain tomorrow" means a weather forecast says it will rain tomorrow and usually not that people want it to rain tomorrow.

I wonder if this phrase has different connotations among other English readers? A lot of these comments are fairly early for US timezones.

[wavemode]

I don't think US vs. non-US has anything to do with it. It's an ambiguous phrase, whose meaning is usually resolved by context.

"It's expected to rain tomorrow" is a prediction, whereas "students are expected to behave themselves" is an expectation (with consequences, presumably).

In the former case we clearly aren't saying we want it to rain, just that we believe it's likely, whereas in the latter example we are clearly expressing that we do want students to behave.

It's ambiguous because "expect" has two different meanings:

> to consider probable or certain

> to consider reasonable, due, or necessary