Date: 10 Jun 2003 12:18:21 -0700 From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: experimental? (was: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 5.1 Released!) Message-ID: <nd65ndn3lu.5nd@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0306092214540.4676-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0306092214540.4676-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>
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"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"?
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