[98895] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Warez...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Meyer)
Wed Nov 11 01:07:33 1998
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 23:06:38
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
From: John Meyer <john_meyer@geocities.com>
In-Reply-To: <002d01be0d34$c0fb2ea0$85a2b4d1@magi.atfantasy.com>
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At 09:33 PM 11/10/98 -0800, you wrote:
>>> Bad idea unless you're dead set on becoming a public warez repository.
>>
>>I know what Warez is. What I want to know is the origin and
>>meaning of the name "Warez".
>
>
>It's slang for software(s).
It's more than that. It's usually pirated software. It comes out of the
old tradition of spelling names phonetically, like philes and phreaking.
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