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Date:      Fri, 19 Mar 1999 13:10:37 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Confusion 
Message-ID:  <52314.921877837@zippy.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Mar 1999 10:23:41 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903191004430.464-100000@guru.phone.net> 

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> If you want to fault the FreeBSD team for debugging on their customers
> platforms - then you've got to fault the entire industry. Everyone
> does it - because there isn't any way you can replicate *every* system
> that users are going to try and run your product on. Wise users have
> been avoiding .0 releases for production systems since - well, longer
> than I've been in the game. It's part of life in the software world,
> at least until that world undergoes some *radical* changes.

Thank you, that's essentially what I've been trying to say in a far
less succinct fashion for the last 2 or 3 rounds.

I also appreciate that it was pointed out that Windows 98 was hardly
any less buggy in its own way (or, for that matter, Win95) when first
released, the difference being that Microsoft was by no means as
honest about the bleeding-edge nature of these releases as we are.
They just hyped it to the skies and sold it like the shameless bunch
of jackals that they are. :-)

I, on the other hand, warned people away from 3.0-RELEASE in multiple
emails, in the README, on the WEB site (www.cdrom.com was very clear
about 3.0-RELEASE's status in its mailed handouts and all promo
materials) and all I seem to have gotten for this degree of "honesty"
is a kick in the crotch and claims that users weren't adequately
warned.  It's enough to make one wish for a nuclear war so that we
might perhaps redirect evolution to some more promising candidate. ;)

- Jordan


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