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Subject: Re: Gotcha in moving to post 4.4 lite2 merge ``world''. 
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Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 00:01:55 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> People say Kirk McKusick is working on soft updates as a contractor to
> BSDI.

He is.  David and he were talking about this tonite and since I was
only listening with half an ear, I'll let David share any pertinent
comments he may have for himself.

> Case 1: The release of these kind of enhancements would delayed
> long enough to give them a "competitive advantage". 
> 
> Case 2: The enhancements will be considered their proprietary "value-add" 
> indefinitely and things will diverge more than ever.

Case 3: BSDI & Kirk actually do this openly and allow the other *BSDs
to pick up the work in a timely fashion.

I have reason to believe that #3 may be a distinct possibility.

					Jordan