Anne Wilson wrote: > 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? Make a bookmark for http://www.acronymfinder.com/ and you'll almost never have to ask that question again. >>> >>> 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 > -- You had mail. Paul read it, so ask him what it said.
