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From: mandtbac@news.abo.fi (Mats Andtbacka)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Date: 23 Jan 1995 09:38:51 GMT
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References: <950116203411@lambada> <3fi1qr$p1u@hustle.rahul.net> <D2rxsx.G96@indirect.com> <1995Jan23.061842.24161@rosevax.rosemount.com>
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Grant Edwards, in <1995Jan23.061842.24161@rosevax.rosemount.com>:
>Barnacle Wes (wes@indirect.com) wrote:
>: The problem with Linux, {Free,Net}BSD, GNU tools, etc., is that the rag-
>: heads don't have a word to describe them. Shareware doesn't really
>: apply, and some bonehead already trademarked both "NetWare" and "Unix-
>: Ware." Sigh. Anyone have a better name?
>Um, I thought that's what the term "underware" was intended to be for:
>software that's not commercial, not shareware, not public domain, but
>is freely available in source form.
Um, I thought the term "freeware" was intended to cover that at least
to some extent.
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