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Subject: Re: duration of the ports freeze
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David Southwell wrote:
>
> Before I do so let me  step outsiide the freebsd environment and ask what our 
> comments would be if MS$ were to announce that they were about to release an 
> upgrade to their operating system and until the new upgrade had been released 
> upgrades to existing applications would be barred. I am sure we would all 
> agree that that was ridiculous. But that is the result of our current 
> practice.
>   

If they did I wonder if it might make the resulting os + set of 
applications more stable... folks running Vista might wish they did do 
this in fact.

Cheers

Mark