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From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>
To: Jonathan Anderson <jonathan@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: There is currently no usable release of FreeBSD.
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On Wed 2014-06-04 15:34:37 UTC-0230, Jonathan Anderson (jonathan@FreeBSD.org) wrote:

> Tony Li wrote:
> > What’s the problem with using ‘legacy’?
> 
> Is the problem actually that we're using the term "legacy", which some 
> vendors use to mean "unsupported"? Perhaps we ought to say:

The Subject: line is trollbait but I think at the very least "legacy"
is a confusing term to use, with unneccessarily (in this instance)
negative connotations for what is after all very good, reliable,
supported, software.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_system

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_code

Merely a documentation issue, not a code quality/@hackers issue.

Regards
Andrew