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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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