Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!savage From: savage@ssc-vax.UUCP (Lowell Savage) Newsgroups: net.misc,net.wanted Subject: Re: Re: Question for Freeware authors Message-ID: <91@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 11:48:51 EDT Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.91 Posted: Tue Aug 6 11:48:51 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 02:48:56 EDT References: <873@wanginst.UUCP> <390@timeinc.UUCP> <181@tekig5.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 29 Xref: linus net.misc:6883 net.wanted:6125 *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MICRO, PLEASE *** > > 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 beings, including my left shoe.