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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Path: sparky!uunet!spooky!witr
- From: witr@rwwa.COM (Robert Withrow)
- Subject: Re: Bug Report and Patchkit status
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.183953.6573@rwwa.COM>
- Keywords: time,school,need a life!
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- Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates
- References: <1992Dec10.173351.11083@coe.montana.edu> <1992Dec11.224735.23342@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 18:39:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec11.224735.23342@fcom.cc.utah.edu>,
- terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
-
- | It is probably a mistake to CDROM at this point (not that I wouldn't buy
- | one myself)
-
- Nor I. Actually, with the mastering costs that have been reported, a twice
- yearly CDROM distribution doesn't seem unreasonable, and a quarterly CDROM
- release doesn't seem impossible, and so I wouldn't call it a mistake, since
- a fix would be, at most, a few months away...
-
- | I am also wary of the USL reaction to large scale distribution of 386BSD
- | (or for that matter, Linux) prior to the suit being resolved one way or
- | the other.
-
- This could cut both ways. It *might* have a benificial (sort of a ``lancing
- of the boil'') result.
-
- | One thing that would help alleviate the pressure would be an agreement
- | by the CDROM proponents to a "code freeze" at some recent "current level"
- | [...]This would, of course, reduce the "competitiveness" of distributions
- | from "nice guys" if the CDROM were to be treated as a commercial product
-
- Or perhaps have the CDROM distributed by a 386BSD ``user's group''? Perhaps
- under the auspices of some other organization?
-
- -
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