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- From: mcrowley@MtHolyoke.edu (Michael A. Crowley)
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- Subject: Patches online, was Re: Unix Review review of Alpha/OSF
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 21:12:54 -0500
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- Bill Rye (rye@scmbrd.dco.dec.com) wrote:
- > It all boils down to legalities. ...
-
- I want patches online. But I don't think they are as necessary
- online as the information *about* the patches.
-
- I understand Marcus' (mjr) concerns about the political pressures
- when working at DEC. (And that does *not* bother me as it did
- someone who followed that up.) And I hear the potential problems
- of legalities, and taking a pragmatic view, can understand and
- sympathize with that position while also being real unhappy with
- those who feed lawyers by litigation which tries to lay responsibility
- (including financial responsibility) elsewhere than their own
- personal or corporate behavior. And I will ignore for this
- discussion that others may have solved these problems of online
- patches and new releases.
-
- I know I can get tapes of patches from CSC, and have. However,
- I and my staff have also spent time troubleshooting problems that
- ater turn out to have patches to fix them. I would be happy to call
- CSC and give my authorization number and have the patches mailed
- to me, either postal or uuencoded (I've done it both ways),
- BUT we need to know they exist!
-
- I would like to see online:
- * the release notes, current version
- * the list of patches and the notes concerning them
-
- It would be nice to also get them online, but I'm more concerned
- with the personnel time involved in all this.
-
- So I'm requesting that everyone who feels strongly about this,
- include these options to their sales rep and thus avoid all
- the "we can't issue online patches because..." arguments, when
- what we really want is to spend less time troubleshooting problems
- and more time to simply getting them fixed.
- mac.
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- Michael A. Crowley mcrowley@mtholyoke.edu
- Director of Network and Technical Services
- Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 01075
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