From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 19 13:11: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95B3C15585 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 13:11:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA52316; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 13:10:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Mike Meyer Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Confusion In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 19 Mar 1999 10:23:41 PST." Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 13:10:37 -0800 Message-ID: <52314.921877837@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > If you want to fault the FreeBSD team for debugging on their customers > platforms - then you've got to fault the entire industry. Everyone > does it - because there isn't any way you can replicate *every* system > that users are going to try and run your product on. Wise users have > been avoiding .0 releases for production systems since - well, longer > than I've been in the game. It's part of life in the software world, > at least until that world undergoes some *radical* changes. Thank you, that's essentially what I've been trying to say in a far less succinct fashion for the last 2 or 3 rounds. I also appreciate that it was pointed out that Windows 98 was hardly any less buggy in its own way (or, for that matter, Win95) when first released, the difference being that Microsoft was by no means as honest about the bleeding-edge nature of these releases as we are. They just hyped it to the skies and sold it like the shameless bunch of jackals that they are. :-) I, on the other hand, warned people away from 3.0-RELEASE in multiple emails, in the README, on the WEB site (www.cdrom.com was very clear about 3.0-RELEASE's status in its mailed handouts and all promo materials) and all I seem to have gotten for this degree of "honesty" is a kick in the crotch and claims that users weren't adequately warned. It's enough to make one wish for a nuclear war so that we might perhaps redirect evolution to some more promising candidate. ;) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message