From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 17 14:25:44 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 004FB16A417 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:25:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: from smtpgate1.pacific.net.sg (smtpgate1.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.31]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B95413C46A for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:25:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: (qmail 26443 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2007 14:25:40 -0000 Received: from adsl35.dyn229.pacific.net.sg (HELO P2120.somewherefaraway.com) (oceanare@210.24.229.35) by smtpgate1.pacific.net.sg with ESMTPA; 17 Oct 2007 14:25:38 -0000 Message-ID: <47161B5D.9050002@pacific.net.sg> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:25:33 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070826) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Albert.Shih@obspm.fr References: <20071017133352.GE67677@pcjas.obspm.fr> In-Reply-To: <20071017133352.GE67677@pcjas.obspm.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why 7.0 is so late ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:25:44 -0000 Hi, Albert Shih wrote: > Hi all > > > Anyone known why this time the release of 7.0 is so late ? In generaly the > date on http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html is alway very optimist. > > But this time it's almost 5 mounth (annonced june 2007). while companies like Microsoft must publish in time to make the share holders happy, FreeBSD can afford to wait until the programmers are convinced that their work is good enough for the public. Erich