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From: pmg@aplvax.UUCP (P. Michael Guba)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.wanted
Subject: Re: Question for Freeware authors
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Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 09:32:09 EDT
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|> 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
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