Where Fedora Went Wrong (nice conclusion)

[Ed Greshko]

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 at fedoraproject.org> 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
> 


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