From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 10 12:19:25 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 3068037B401 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:19:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc11.attbi.com (sccrmhc11.attbi.com [204.127.202.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 265E043FA3 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:19:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain (12-231-16-253.client.attbi.com[12.231.16.253](untrusted sender)) by attbi.com (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2003061019191601100r9nase>; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 19:19:16 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.9/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h5AJIRKc027390; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:18:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.9/8.12.5/Submit) id h5AJIL9m027389; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:18:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: "Jeremy C. Reed" References: From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 10 Jun 2003 12:18:21 -0700 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 19:19:25 -0000 "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"?