On Sunday 20 May 2007, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 19 May 2007, Anne Wilson wrote: > >On Saturday 19 May 2007, Thomas Cameron wrote: > >> Mauriat M wrote: > >> > On 5/15/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> Yep. If half of the people who are willing to discuss the nature of > >> >> Fedora in length step further to actually contribute that would make > >> >> a pretty big difference but alas folks are more interested in calling > >> >> it unstable or wanting the distribution to including proprietary > >> >> software by default. > >> >> > >> >> Next time you want to complain ask yourself how much you have > >> >> contributed in anyway at all to a every growing collection of Free > >> >> software included in a distribution that you can get for free. That > >> >> includes a lot of work many of which is volunteer driven in > >> >> maintaining around 8000 packages, documentation, artwork, QA, release > >> >> engineering, infrastructure, marketing etc. > >> >> > >> >> You can choose to help. > >> > > >> > Must I contribute to expect a somewhat stable and useful general > >> > purpose operating system? > >> > >> TANSTAAFL > > > >What the blue blazes does that mean? > > > >Anne > > Oh, my. Sad, even shocking my dear Anne. You just gave yourself away as > being someone who has never read one of sci-fi's more famous authors, one > Robert A. Heinlein, now deceased, On the contrary. I have read some of his books, just not the one referred to in another mail. > who was rather fond of the expression, > but I think he borrowed in from Ernest Hemingway back in the dim mists of > time now. > > What it stands for is the first letter of each word in "There ain't no such > thing as a free lunch" > I've known the saying for as long as I can remember, though I don't recall ever seeing the acronym before. Actually, I deplore the use of long acronyms that frequently mean little or nothing to the reader. Anne
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