Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 16:46:39 -0500 From: "Mark S. Reichman" <mark@borg.com> To: Rob <drifter@stratos.nospam.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Dictionary Message-ID: <36E1A23F.80EF39E2@borg.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903012039050.1596-100000@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk> <19990301135117.A74364@wopr.caltech.edu> <19990303045313.B1500@net>
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The next time you are in a bookstore take a look at all the dictionaries available. Almost all of them say Websters on them and they are sold by a multitude of different publishing companies. The term "Webster" doesnt mean a thing anymore. It used to, but not anymore. Feel free to make a dictionary and put Websters on it if you like. Quoting a websters dictionary only means that that particular publishing company, look inside the front cover, defines the word that way. Open an entirely different Websters and it will/may have a totaly different definition. Oh.. Who was that guy named Roget anyway. I hear he has the same problem as Webster. Rob wrote: > > [ X-ed to FreeBSD-Chat ] > On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 01:51:17PM -0800, Matthew Hunt wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 09:24:10PM +0000, Ben J. Cohen wrote: > > > > > I have been using it with a friend to try and solve crosswords and it > > > hasn't been too brilliant---for instance it doesn't have the words > > > "Internet" or "cheapskate". (Of course, our crossword solving skill > > > aren't brilliant either.) > > > > Note the README: > > > > # Welcome to web2 (Webster's Second International) all 234,936 words worth. > > # The 1934 copyright has elapsed, according to the supplier. The > > # supplemental 'web2a' list contains hyphenated terms as well as assorted > > # noun and adverbial phrases. The wordlist makes a dandy 'grep' victim. > > > > The lack of "Internet" in a 1934 dictionary should not be surprising. > > We have that dictionary because its copyright expired, not because > > anyone donated it. I don't know whether there are any more recent > > or more complete dictionaries available for free. > > > > -- > > Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Science rules. > > http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * > > This might sound like a stupid question, but how is it possible > to "copyright" a dictionary? I(c) mean(c), they(c) don't(c) own(c) > the(c) words(c), do they? > At the very least, it would seem that Webster's would be hard- > pressed to prove that somebody "stole" their word list. > > -Rob > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- \|/ (@ @) +----------oOO----(_)------------------+ | Mark S. Reichman FreeBSD | | mark@borg.com Got source? | | | | May the source be with you! | | | +------------------------oOO-----------+ |__|__| || || ooO Ooo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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