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From: fbp@cybvax0.UUCP (Rick Peralta)
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Subject: Re: Question for Freeware authors
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Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 12:57:38 EDT
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In article <392@timeinc.UUCP> greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) writes:
>
>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.
>

Language is evolving, but to what ?  Chinese is so complex and inconsistent
that only masters can truly read and write.  English, I hope, will not follow
exactly in their foot steps.  We are develpoing a versitile and colorfull
language, but at what cost ?  Personall I like the UN*X approach to life.
Simple and orthagonal.  If you wrote an OS how many copy commands would you
have ? One, two, a dozen, more ?  Some OSs go for the oodles approach to
systems tools.  It's easier to create many colorfull parts, but they are not
easy to use.  Look at throughput. It isn't even in many dictionaries, but 
it's meaning os clear to almost everyone (in copmuters).  And how about
leeward and leward.  Try and explain the diffrances to someone.  Most
dictionaries don't even separate them!

I don't know anything about Flugleman, but I would guesse he prefered simple
understandable terms like "free-ware".  Look up free and ware in the dictionary
and you've got the new definition.  It would be difficult to dig into the 
encyclopedias to find flugle and then summise that he had done to coin this 
word.

Rick  ...!cybvax0[!dmc0]!fbp

"A likely story.  I don't believe a word of it."