Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site aplvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!decuac!aplvax!pmg From: pmg@aplvax.UUCP (P. Michael Guba) Newsgroups: net.misc,net.wanted Subject: Re: Question for Freeware authors Message-ID: <142@aplvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 09:32:09 EDT Article-I.D.: aplvax.142 Posted: Fri Aug 9 09:32:09 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 07:31:39 EDT References: <873@wanginst.UUCP> <390@timeinc.UUCP> <181@tekig5.UUCP> Reply-To: pmg@aplvax.UUCP (P. Michael Guba) Followup-To: net.misc Distribution: net Organization: JHU/Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD Lines: 23 Xref: linus net.misc:6891 net.wanted:6146 |> Would it be a living epitath to Andrew Flugelman to henceforth |> call all freeware "Flugelware"? It might sound funny at first, |> but this guy *did* change the face of computing. In article <181@tekig5.UUCP> waynekn@tekig5.UUCP (Wayne Knapp) writes: | That isn't funny, it's stupid. We are already hacking up English to a | degree that Webster never dreamed possible! Lets try to keep the terms | understandable. Anyway I admire your courage at posting such an idea, | even though I think it's a terrible idea. A Watt is a Watt and a Volt is a Volt, why can't "Flugelware" be Flugelware. In history a lot of "things" have been given the names of the people behind them. Why doesn't this tradition apply any more? Thats my two cents, Mike -- P. Michael Guba ...seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!pmg JHU/Applied Physics Lab ...rlgvax!cvl!umcp-cs!aplvax!pmg Johns Hopkins Road Laurel, Maryland 20707 (301) 953-6829 ---- End of Mesg ----