From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 5 20:15:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA19189 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 20:15:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gringo.cdrom.com (root@ppp-010.tky.exa.co.jp [210.129.93.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA19090; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 20:15:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@gringo.cdrom.com) Received: from gringo.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by gringo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA00428; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 19:08:08 -0800 (PST) To: Rob Levandowski cc: "George Ellenburg" , jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, davidg@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Matt Stein" Subject: Re: Year 2000 compliance statement? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 05 Feb 1998 16:23:23 EST." <199802052122.QAA04584@phoebe.accinet.net> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 19:08:06 -0800 Message-ID: <425.886734486@gringo.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" > >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 find it truly inexplicable that you would take the response from some random person on the mailing list and extrapolate all of this from it. I can only conclude that you must be having a bad day since your conclusions otherwise defy all logic and I honest don't know what to make of them. > This, for the price of a simple note stating that the OS is Y2K > compliant, or that users must apply certain patches to the core OS to be > Y2K compliant. The OS is Y2K compliant. We've send a number of our machines into the year 2020 and fixed those things which didn't work right. > Previously, I had been a strong supporter of FreeBSD. This note is > making me reconsider that. The advantages of FreeBSD aren't worth this > level of arrogance and hubris. If I wanted a "tough sh*t" attitude, I > could run Microsoft software. It's too bad that the FreeBSD "community > made up of nothing of volunteers" doesn't feel the need to worry about > their OS being acceptable to a business world concerned about losing > everything on January 1, 2000. Apparently FreeBSD isn't "just like > Linux," because I was able to find a Linux web site stating Y2K > compliance levels . Again, these conclusions leave me flabbergasted. If you make such sweeping decisions based on so little input then I can honestly only conclude that we'd have found it impossible to work with you in any case, no matter how the question might have been answered to begin with. Jordan