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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!news.cic.net!locust.cic.net!pauls From: pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Are you really here, Bill? (was Re: Boy you are silly!) Date: 20 May 1994 13:20:31 GMT Organization: CICNet, Inc. Lines: 36 Message-ID: <2ridev$ks9@spruce.cic.net> References: <jmonroyCq3K2n.1Mt@netcom.com> <2ri898$90c@omega.gmd.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: locust.cic.net In article <2ri898$90c@omega.gmd.de>, Holger Veit <veit@borneo.gmd.de> wrote: >In article <jmonroyCq3K2n.1Mt@netcom.com>, jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes: >|> Let's get something straight.... cause I know Bill is >|> reading this damm silly message trail. > >Assuming the above is correct, then why the hell doesn't he (Bill Jolitz, >or she, Lynne Jolitz) make an end to all the rumour? Well if we can trust that statement, and if we assume that the Jolitzi are perfectly capable of posting a usenet news article, I see only one reason for silence -- that we're generating the best kind of publicity that they can hope for and will consequently experience sufficient curio sales of this disk to make it worth their while. The corollary of this is that what's actually on the CDROM is not worth talking about, and if they did talk about it they would probably sell fewer of them than if they let us whip ourselves into a frenzy of interest and puerile fantasy about this thing. Even if we assume that Bill Jolitz is the finest BSD programmer to ever live, you can still safely assume that his complete divorce from the vibrant development community that has sprung up around this operating system has put him in a position where he cannot possibly compete with the kind of quality work that's already being done in both the NetBSD and FreeBSD camps. Consequently if you're looking for the latest and greatest 386BSD release, it's *not* a possibility that you'll find it in a shrink wrap at Egghead with Bill's name on it. I imagine that as soon as this fucking thing ships someone here will snatch up a copy and tell us all about it. Til then "please remain calm; the situation is under control." Go back to the real work you were doing and EDIT YOUR KILLFILE. -- Paul Southworth CICNet Systems Support pauls@cic.net