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Date:      Tue, 25 May 1999 23:46:50 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral)
Cc:        davids@webmaster.com, mike@smith.net.au, serge69@nym.alias.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [Q] How stable is FreeBSD 3.X ?
Message-ID:  <199905252146.XAA05453@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <374AF82C.2ED50D57@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at "May 26, 1999  4:21:16 am"

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As Daniel C. Sobral wrote ...
> David Schwartz wrote:

> first, and only *then*, if the bug persists, complain. What's the
> point of complaining about something fixed already? And if it is not
> fixed, how are we supposed to tell the difference between it, and
> something that *has* been fixed, if you are not using the latest
> stable?
> 
> And don't come with the "company supported" stuff. Default procedure
> for technical support of any software house is to first get the user
> to apply fixes, and only then consider the possibility of new bug.

There is one detail I miss: most commercial products are supported by 
supplying limited scale fixes (OK, sometime a *lot* of them) instead of
a wholesale upgrade.

Not that I advocate starting a patch circus like most of the commercial folks
mind you! Just an observation.

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