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To: Glen Foster <gfoster@osmre.gov>
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Subject: Re: Release stability 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 Apr 95 12:47:13 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 19:32:10 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> Features are nice to have but the measure of any operating system is
> how dependable it is.  In my book features account for about 20% and
> dependability (in which I include both predictability and stability)
> about 80% of the "quality" of a release.  Please, please, please do
> not compromise the quality of 2.1.

Just to set that particular record straight, no one here has even
mentioned compromising the quality of 2.1.  In fact, it's that very
unwillingness to compromise its quality that has led us to push its
release date out into July.  We're now talking about an interim release
to take some of the heat off!

					Jordan