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- From: duke@portal.paperboy.osf.org (Duke Robillard)
- Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: POSIX threatens our use of lp/lpr and friends
- In-Reply-To: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil's message of Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:10:22 GMT
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 13:31:51
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- atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) writes:
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- Kind of makes one wonder why the POSIX.7 people didn't use something
- like it as the basis for their work. [begin sarcasm] I'm sure it
- isn't because they can sell us Palladium for extra cost and then sell
- us Palladium "support" (again extra cost) while they fix it so that it
- works. [end sarcasm]
-
- You know, I've been resisting the urge to defend myself against Atkinson's
- uninformed, hysterical attacks, but I've just lost my self-control. I
- know I'll hate myself later for getting into a flame war....
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- Randall Atkinson hasn't been involved with the 1003.7.1 group at all,
- at least not in the last 2.5 years. If he had spent any time working
- with us, he would know that the people on the group are engineers trying
- to solve a problem, not marketing types trying to make money off other
- people's misfortune.
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- If he has legitmate technical concerns with Palladium, I'd appreciate
- it if he brought them forward, rather than posting nasty cracks about
- people's motives.
-
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- Duke Robillard, DoD #0130, duke@osf.org
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