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Date:      Mon, 28 Dec 1998 13:32:39 -0800
From:      Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>
To:        Bob Pekarske <pekarske_bob@burr-brown.com>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        pekarske_bob@u2.bbrown.com
Subject:   Re: Y2K
Message-ID:  <19981228133239.B19726@wopr.caltech.edu>
In-Reply-To: <36879149.6418@burr-brown.com>; from Bob Pekarske on Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 02:10:17PM %2B0000
References:  <36879149.6418@burr-brown.com>

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On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 02:10:17PM +0000, Bob Pekarske wrote:

> GREAT! But please don't leave your site the way it is now. My fellows in
> industry CANNOT take it seriously, and we will not test it for you. My
> management will simply say "I told you that was an unsupported OS.
> Convert to a real system before 2000."

Why won't you test it for us?  FreeBSD is a volunteer-based project.
If this issue is important to you, then you should be willing to
invest the effort to address it.  Asking other people to do this work
(which is likely to be tedious and dull) is not likely to work very
well.

Another alternative would be to hire a consultant to audit the code
for you.  Money is a great incentive for people to do things that
they're otherwise unlikely to do.

Matthew

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