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According to "American Speech -- A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage", underware is defined as this: --underware 1996 Jan 16 InfoWorld 104/1 We classify Linux as underware because, technically, we can't call it shareware or freeware, especially if we're talking about one of the professionally supported licenses versions of Linux. ... So we've arbitrarily ranked it at some nebulous level below commercial software, at least as far as how it is developed, updated, and supported. Just between us, our target readership generally doesn't want to risk using underware in a mission-critical environment. Feb 27 InfoWorld 108/1-2 (head and text) Former hacker upgrades Linux from 'underware' to fun-time wonderware / When we first installed Linux for the purposes of testing it as an Internet gateway, we ran into all sorts of prblems. But I found this OS [operating system[, which I've dubbed "underware," very intriguing, so I ordered up a handful of versions to see if I could stumble on one that would install on my home machine. Above clipping copyright 1996 by The University of Alabama Press The Summer 1996 issue of American Speech has an ISSN # 0003-1283. -- Cute, huh? [offtopic, but still...] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Graeme Tippett - greenie@100acre.com - http://www.100acre.com/~greenie "Only the one that hurts you can make you feel better" -- Madonna -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | ||||||||||
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