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Spec: be clearer about what activation means

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The spec previously mentioned that CORBA calls this activation, but
did not explicitly say that D-Bus has copied this jargon term.
It's 2016, and developers are probably more likely to be familiar
with D-Bus than with CORBA at this point: explicitly say that *our*
jargon term for this action is activation.

Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Philip Withnall <philip.withnall@collabora.co.uk>
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98671
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</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="message-bus-starting-services">
<title>Message Bus Starting Services</title>
<title>Message Bus Starting Services (Activation)</title>
<para>
The message bus can start applications on behalf of other applications.
In CORBA terms, this would be called <firstterm>activation</firstterm>.
This is referred to as <firstterm>service activation</firstterm> or
<firstterm>activation</firstterm>.
An application that can be started in this way is called a
<firstterm>service</firstterm>.
<firstterm>service</firstterm> or an
<firstterm>activatable service</firstterm>.
</para>
<para>
With D-Bus, starting a service is normally done by name. That is,