Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 15:25:26 -0700 From: "Regina Linert" <linertr@agcs.com> To: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: y2k Message-ID: <3798EBD6.E9075999@agcs.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907231440330.28191-100000@dt011n65.san.rr.com>
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Doug, I am a non technical person ... I've taken the initiative to research over hundreds of software & hardware products relative to their Y2K compliance standing for my company. To date, your company is the only one that didn't spell the Y2K statement out in an easy to understand fashion. I've been able to tell our engineers that the software they are running is y2k compliant or requires specific patches and where to get the patch, or that the software will not be Y2K compliant. Rather than just make the assumption that all the versions of FreeBSD were Y2K compliant and tell this to the engineers, I asked a simple question (silly maybe) that will save our company from running into a Y2K problem. Tell me that isn't initiative!!!! For my money, why wouldn't a company want to help a customer no matter how silly. Doug wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Regina Linert wrote: > > > Well, it is pretty silly that your page doesn't address versions. > > Actually it's entirely by design, as in all likelihood "version" > doesn't mean the same thing to us that it means to you. In general with > FreeBSD you are safest with the most recent -Stable version of the > software. All _known_ Y2K bugs are fixed in it. For unknown quantities, > refer to the disclaimers on that web page. > > As for your reaction to Bill's response, for my money he's right. > If you don't show the least bit of inclination to help yourself, why > should we help you? This actually leads to the other reason the page is > vague and generally uninteresting. Frankly, anyone with enough technical > sophistication to understand a better answer wouldn't have to ask the > question in the first place. > > Have a nice day, > > Doug > -- > On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only > nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter > what it does. > -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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