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Chris BeHanna wrote:
> On Friday 09 May 2003 01:28, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > Don wrote:
> > > > it's not really appropriate to -current any more.  Bosko's is
> > > > preferred, because it doesn't disclose the nature of the bug,
> > >
> > > How, exactly, is this preferred? :)
> >
> > It avoids a lawsuit.
> 
>     Who would be the plaintiff, and what would be the basis of the
> lawsuit?

Intel would be the plaintiff.


>     And, why aren't Bosko's patches in the tree?

I don't know.  I do know that they increased the minimum memory
requirements by 4M (part of Bosko's approach to a fix requires
linking the kernel with a base address aligned on a 4M boundary).

-- Terry