From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 6 00:11:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA23334 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 00:11:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA23326 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 00:11:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA09189; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 09:11:29 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 09:11:29 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer To: Rob Levandowski cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Year 2000 compliance statement? In-Reply-To: <199802052122.QAA04584@phoebe.accinet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Rob Levandowski wrote: > 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. > > 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. > > 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 . I agree. FreeBSD is a well-behaving operating system for serious applications, and thus the FreeBSD community shouldn't neglect questions like this. Konrad Heuer, GWDG, Goettingen, Germany (kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de)