From: "S. Barret Dolph" <wheds8@ms66.hinet.net>
To: linux <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: contributing to FSF
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 22:04:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200508272204.15664.wheds8@ms66.hinet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <deovsg$h3j$1@sea.gmane.org>
Actually there is no need to quote Heinlein as it is not his. Years ago in NYC
one could get food for free if one purchased beer. But some would try to get
food without a purchase. Thus signs were put up saything, "There is no such
thing as a free lunch"
Cordially,
S. Barret Dolph
Taipei Taiwan
On Saturday 27 August 2005 06:09, _z33 wrote:
> Jeff Woods wrote:
> > "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."
> > -- from the Robert Heinlein novel: The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
> >
> > Google's "feeling lucky" (i.e. first) result for TANSTAAFL:
> > http://jargon.net/jargonfile/t/TANSTAAFL.html
>
> worth putting that phrase on my desktop :)
>
> _z33
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-27 22:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-27 5:21 contributing to FSF _z33
2005-08-27 5:43 ` Jeff Woods
2005-08-27 5:53 ` _z33
2005-08-27 5:59 ` Jeff Woods
2005-08-27 6:09 ` _z33
2005-08-27 22:04 ` S. Barret Dolph [this message]
2005-08-27 16:55 ` TANSTAAFL (was: Re: contributing to FSF) Ray Olszewski
2005-08-28 6:01 ` joy merwin monteiro
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