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From: datacrft@perth.DIALix.oz.au (Datacraft Technology)
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Subject: Re: Come now... Where's 1.1 Relese ?
Date: 4 Apr 1994 21:52:27 +0800
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In <JKH.94Apr3185314@whisker.hubbard.ie> jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:

>In article <2nmo90$ncc@inet.up.ac.za> hwposer@dreamcoat.ee.up.ac.za (Rolf HW Poser) writes:

>   Hi Folks !

>   You said the 13th of March, then you said the end of the month so that some
>   court proceedings could come to an end. Well - we're still waiting, and we 
>   would all really appreciate the full release, because there are machines
>   waiting,  installations waiting, prople waiting etc....

>I understand.  If you know anything at all concerning the legal
>profession, then you'll know that it never moves as fast as one would
>like.  Believe me, we'd LOVE to do a full release, but we cannot until
>USL gives us the go-ahead.  On the most positive side, it could be a
>week or two.  On the most negative, it could kill 1.1 entirely,

Why do we need the "go-ahead" from USL ?????

Net-2 is still available from most FTP sites which had it previously. If
anything then USL might hassle those sites. {Free,Net}BSD have evolved
so far from the original Net-2 that USL couldn't get a handle at us anyway.
What could they do anyway - take away my PC ?

If USL can hassle US FTP sites. Why don't we just set up a site outside of
the US ?

Does anybody (apart from USL) know what bits of Net-2 they claim is theirs ?
If yes please let us know. A few days and we should be able to rewrite the
few routines.

>causing us to wait for the 4.4 lite tape to be released so that we can
>reengineer the bits in dispute.  This would see 1.2 released sometime
>in June or July.

>We're not `giving ourselves lots of time', USL is giving us no time at
>all, and this is what we're trying to negotiate.  Please be patient
>and try to imagine how we must feel about this after having 1.1 ready
>to go all these weeks.

How close is 1.1-BETA and 1.1 ? Are there patches to bring 1.1-BETA to 1.1 ?
If yes how do I get them ?

>					Jordan
>--
>Jordan K. Hubbard	FreeBSD core team	Raving lunatic

Tibor Sashegyi