From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 5 14:18:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA10534 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 14:18:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail-ftp.nordicdms.com (mail-ftp.nordicdms.com [208.1.210.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA10490 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 14:18:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from walton@nordicdms.com) Received: from mail-ftp (mail-ftp.nordicdms.com [208.1.210.10]) by mail-ftp.nordicdms.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1 release PO205e ID# 0-0U10L2S100) with SMTP id AAA230; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 14:18:28 -0800 Comments: Authenticated sender is From: walton@nordicdms.com (Dave Walton) Organization: Nordic Entertainment Worldwide To: Rob Levandowski , , "Matt Stein" Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 14:18:28 -800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Year 2000 compliance statement? Reply-to: walton@nordicdms.com In-reply-to: <199802052122.QAA04584@phoebe.accinet.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.52) Message-ID: <19980205221828803.AAA230@mail-ftp.nordicdms.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On 5 Feb 98 at 16:23, Rob Levandowski wrote: > [In response to a polite request for a Year 2000 compliance statement, > which my company requires of all hardware and software vendors -- > commercial or volunteer -- whose products are currently in use...] > > On 2/5/98 2:49 PM, George Ellenburg (gme@sundial.net) wrote: > > >I think I speak for everyone in the FreeBSD Community when I say that > >FreeBSD is a FREE Operating system, just like Linux. As far as Y2K goes, > >it inherently is compatible (the operating system) but some of the apps > >which run on it may not be. > > > >Tell your bosses though that if they want a Y2K statement they can spend > >$5000 and buy BSD/OS 3.1. Otherwise, you're stuck without a compliance > >statement. A community made up of nothing but volunteers doesn't need to > >worry with this kind of stuff. > > Thanks so much. With a response like this, my work to build support for > FreeBSD within the company is worthless; I will be forced to cast aside > my investment in this OS, and redeploy all my work on other platforms > whose vendors do recognize the Y2K problem. I think I speak for everyone in the FreeBSD Community when I say that George does not necessarily speak for everyone in the FreeBSD Community. :) You bring up a very good point, and I think there SHOULD be a Y2K statement put on the freebsd.org site. (If there is one already, I couldn't find it.) Until such a page appears, the Linux page you found applies equally well for any 32-bit Unix (with the exception of a couple of Linux-specific libraries they mention). Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Walton Webmaster, Postmaster Nordic Entertainment Worldwide walton@nordicdms.com http://www.nordicdms.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------