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Subject:Re: A usage question From:Steve Hollander <HOLLAND -at- IPFWCVAX -dot- BITNET> Date:Tue, 4 May 1993 07:24:09 EST
I think "a software package" is appropriate only when speaking, for example,
about the BOX in which software is sold: "The stockperson (!) put each
software package on the shelf." At that point, paradoxically, it became
OFF-the-shelf software. . . .
Steve Hollander
Indiana University-Purdue University
Fort Wayne, IN
