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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular?
Date: 17 Aug 1995 10:28:29 +0200
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Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
>As for formal releases, core believes they have to be perfect. Core
>switches the version number, adds "_BETA" to it and stops adding new
>features, only bug fixes until the problem reports stop.
Since software is always buggy, problem reports will never stop. ==>
Releases will never happen. 8^)
[Pleeze, note the smiley.]
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)