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From: savage@ssc-vax.UUCP (Lowell Savage)
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Subject: Re: Question for Freeware authors
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Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 16:36:43 EDT
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*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR FLUGELWARE ***
>>> 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.
>>  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?

I think that perhaps there is an even better reason for using "Flugelware".
To the uninitiated (that's me before the first article on this topic came out)
freeware would be public domain software or software for which no author can
be established and thus completely without charge.  Shareware seems to connote
"I will share my x compiler with you in return for you sharing your y word-
processing program with me".  "Flugelware" doesn't have that sort of baggage
carried with it.  An uninitiated person might assume the meaning of "freeware"
or "shareware" and look no further, whereas he/she will require and explanation
of "flugelware".  The explanation of "flugelware" is likely to be different
from what they would have assumed of "freeware".  Perhaps the concept that
Andrew Flugelman came up with is as radically different from other methods
of marketing software as the concept of power is from other measures involved
with electricity and thus as deserving of the discoveror's/inventor's name
as the watt.

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					Lowell C. Savage