Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:18:53 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: experimental? (was: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 5.1 Released!) Message-ID: <3EE6D7DD.5C4A663@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0306092214540.4676-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> <nd65ndn3lu.5nd@localhost.localdomain>
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"Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> writes: > > It seems wrong to use the term "experimental" for a -RELEASE. > > Yet huge numbers of people trust their lives to airplanes labeled > "experimental", even forming the Experimental Aircraft Association. But > I suppose they're so happy to have not been shut down by the Feds that > they'd be willing to go along with a Federal "flying coffin" label. > > > Maybe some other terminology could be used -- any ideas? > > "Non-mature"? "New And Improved"? -- Terry
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