Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cybvax0.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!think!mit-eddie!cybvax0!fbp From: fbp@cybvax0.UUCP (Rick Peralta) Newsgroups: net.misc,net.wanted Subject: Re: Question for Freeware authors Message-ID: <675@cybvax0.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 12:57:38 EDT Article-I.D.: cybvax0.675 Posted: Tue Aug 13 12:57:38 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Aug-85 08:26:00 EDT References: <873@wanginst.UUCP> <390@timeinc.UUCP> <181@tekig5.UUCP> <392@timeinc.UUCP> Reply-To: fbp@cybvax0.UUCP (Rick Peralta) Distribution: net Organization: Cybermation, Inc., Cambridge, MA Lines: 30 Xref: linus net.misc:6908 net.wanted:6176 In article <392@timeinc.UUCP> greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) writes: > >Language is an evolving thing. Flugelman was the guy that made up the >term "freeware". This has become a part of our living language. > >I think there might be room left in the language for one more word: >a word that will cause this fellow to be remembered. > Language is evolving, but to what ? Chinese is so complex and inconsistent that only masters can truly read and write. English, I hope, will not follow exactly in their foot steps. We are develpoing a versitile and colorfull language, but at what cost ? Personall I like the UN*X approach to life. Simple and orthagonal. If you wrote an OS how many copy commands would you have ? One, two, a dozen, more ? Some OSs go for the oodles approach to systems tools. It's easier to create many colorfull parts, but they are not easy to use. Look at throughput. It isn't even in many dictionaries, but it's meaning os clear to almost everyone (in copmuters). And how about leeward and leward. Try and explain the diffrances to someone. Most dictionaries don't even separate them! I don't know anything about Flugleman, but I would guesse he prefered simple understandable terms like "free-ware". Look up free and ware in the dictionary and you've got the new definition. It would be difficult to dig into the encyclopedias to find flugle and then summise that he had done to coin this word. Rick ...!cybvax0[!dmc0]!fbp "A likely story. I don't believe a word of it."