experimental? (was: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 5.1 Released!)

Gary W. Swearingen swear at attbi.com
Tue Jun 10 12:19:25 PDT 2003


"Jeremy C. Reed" <reed at 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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