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From: terry@npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert)
Subject: Re: Status of 386BSD 0.1
Message-ID: <1992Jul15.190736.4639@gateway.novell.com>
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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1992 19:07:36 GMT
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In article <13vqhnINNhc4@agate.berkeley.edu> wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes:
>It is irresponsible to handle releases cavalierly. 

I agree.  I have worked for places which did this.  Not only was the support
work hell, uniform behaviour between shipments of product was totally
unguaranteeable.

>We may be working our asses off on this release, but get one thing straight.
>We're not doing this release for you! We're doing it for all those 
>people who asked us to continue and sent in software, hardware and 
>money to try and make it better.

Please post your snail-mail address.

					Terry Lambert
					terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
					terry@icarus.weber.edu
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