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It smells rotten to me. Looks like anybody more incovenienced besides M$. :((( -------------------------------------------- Isamar Maia subscribe SPAMBR-L@magiclink.com.br mailto:isamar@magiclink.com.br Lista Nacional ANTI-SPAM MagicLink Systems Salvador - BA - Brazil +55-(0)71-351-1615 May the Power Be with you On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Greenie wrote: > 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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