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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:
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> --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.
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> Above clipping copyright 1996 by The University of Alabama Press
> The Summer 1996 issue of American Speech has an ISSN # 0003-1283.
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> -- Cute, huh?
> [offtopic, but still...]
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