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DateThu, 27 Feb 1997 10:07:47 -0300 (EST)
FromIsamar Villas Boas Perrelli Maia <>
SubjectRe: your mail
It smells rotten to me. Looks like anybody more incovenienced besides M$.
:(((

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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...]
> 
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