Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site timeinc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!timeinc!greenber From: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Newsgroups: net.misc,net.wanted Subject: Re: Question for Freeware authors Message-ID: <392@timeinc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 21:33:39 EDT Article-I.D.: timeinc.392 Posted: Tue Aug 6 21:33:39 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 05:39:54 EDT References: <873@wanginst.UUCP> <390@timeinc.UUCP> <181@tekig5.UUCP> Reply-To: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Distribution: net Organization: Time, Inc. - New York Lines: 31 Xref: linus net.misc:6886 net.wanted:6141 In article <181@tekig5.UUCP> waynekn@tekig5.UUCP (Wayne Knapp) writes: (Responding to "Flugelware"): > >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. Webster was a nice guy and all, but didn't he die a while ago. Probably before such words as "microwave", "microprocessor", and other new words were invented. 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. Thanks for your admiration. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ross M. Greenberg @ Time Inc, New York --------->{vax135 | ihnp4}!timeinc!greenber<--------- I highly doubt that Time Inc. would make me their spokesperson. ---- "I had a cat. She died. Had a goldfish. Died. Guppies. Died. Gerbils. Died. Tippy. Died." - little girl "Alright! So I don't like small animals!" - Mr. Death