From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 11 00:20:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57E0A37B404 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:20:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D482C43F85 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:20:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from user-38lc0s4.dialup.mindspring.com ([209.86.3.132] helo=mindspring.com) by puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19PzuK-0006B8-00; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:20:32 -0700 Message-ID: <3EE6D7DD.5C4A663@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:18:53 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gary W. Swearingen" References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a4e03dbb066415045b86aa8d90223fbba3a8438e0f32a48e08350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: experimental? (was: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 5.1 Released!) X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 07:20:50 -0000 "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > "Jeremy C. Reed" 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