On 31/01/2008, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Over 20 years on and we've still not got a perfect word for what we're > working to obsolete?
I tend to use "third-party proprietary" when that's what I mean, commonly just "third-party" (even though free software is third-party too). I'm a sysadmin at a small media company that uses as much open source as possible (and I mean for the price and engineering advantages, so "open source" is the term for what they're after) and regards third-party proprietary as a headache - for all the reasons that third-party proprietary software is bad. Third-party FOSS good, in-house good, third-party proprietary bad. Humans remake the language every time they speak, and the precise words are less important than clearly communicating the ideas. Keep your personal variant of English vital! - d. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
