From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Jul 23 15:48:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt011n65.san.rr.com [204.210.13.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5585D14C2E for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 15:48:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA28691; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 15:47:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 15:47:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt011n65.san.rr.com To: Regina Linert Cc: Bill Fumerola , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: y2k In-Reply-To: <3798EBD6.E9075999@agcs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Regina Linert wrote: > Doug, > > I am a non technical person ... So with all due respect to you, your company and your cow orkers, you shouldn't have been given this responsibility. > I've taken the initiative to research over > hundreds of software & hardware products relative to their Y2K compliance > standing for my company. To date, your company is the only one that didn't > spell the Y2K statement out in an easy to understand fashion. Then we were the only ones who were honest with you. > For my money, why wouldn't a company want to help a customer no matter how > silly. We're not a company. We're a group of volunteers. As such, we expect a certain level of "do-it-yourself-ness" from people. I'm sure that in your world what you did would count as "initiative." Some people involved in FreeBSD might agree with you. I don't, and I'm not going to change my mind, so instead of putting more energy into defending your actions, try putting some into understanding the answers you've already been given. :) Crotchity volunteer, Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message