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From: savage@ssc-vax.UUCP (Lowell Savage)
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Subject: Re: Re: Question for Freeware authors
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Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 11:48:51 EDT
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> > Andrew Flugelman, the originator of the entire "freeware" concept,
> > died last month.
> > Would it be a living epitath to him to henceforth call all freeware
> > "Flugelware"?
> > It might sound funny at first, but this guy *did* change the face
> > of computing.
> 
> 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.

I disagree, it's Webster and Shakespeare that hacked up the English language.
I mean, Chaucer would hardly be able to understand our little words like
articles, contractions and pronouns, let alone our technical terms, buzzwords,
and compound words!!! (-:  :-)

	"Whan that Aprill, withe his shures soote
	 the drught of Marche hath persed to the roote,
	 and bathed avery veine in swich liquor...."
				Canterbury Tales [Copied from faulty memory]
				Chaucer.

					There's more than one way to be savage
					Lowell Savage

	All opinions stated above are obviously those of all sentient
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