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Article #125Re: Year 2000 and Linux
From: Gordon Scott
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 00:00
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Chris Waters (cwaters@systems.dhl.com) wrote: : gordon@sys-2-34.multitone.co.uk (Gordon Scott) writes: : > Yup. Again, personally, I think we should be dealing^H^H^H^H^H^H : > have dealt with both together -- why fix two related problems : > separately? : Ah, ok, there's definitely something to that argument. But I'm not : sure it's that easy. Plus, while it may take less time to fix both : problems if you fix them both at the same time, it will still take : more time to fix both than it will take to just fix one. And only one : is in danger of exploding in our faces. You're right, of course. I guess I'm a little angry that it's because we (collectively) have been putting this off so long that *now* you're right, but if we'd addressed it early enough we wouldn't be facing a potential problem now. When I say we, I mean not just the software people, but also the sales, marketing &c. people who set priorities. Gordon. -- Gordon Scott gordon@multitone.co.uk (official) gordon@mepsys.demon.co.uk (backdoor) gordon@apis.demon.co.uk (home) http://www.apis.demon.co.uk
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f5392,988a9a95e4afdf07 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5392,public X-Google-Thread: 11663c,988a9a95e4afdf07 X-Google-Attributes: gid11663c,public From: gordon@sys-2-34.multitone.co.uk (Gordon Scott) Subject: Re: Year 2000 and Linux Date: 1998/03/16 Message-ID: <6ejg7f$2t1$1@sys-2-34.multitone.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 334570088 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: mepsys.demon.co.uk [193.237.39.216] References: <541zwjlq6y.fsf@rrdjazz.nist.gov> <ckowwdyku9u.fsf@systems.dhl.com> Followup-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,dc.org.linux-users Organization: Multitone Electronics plc; Systems Development. Reply-To: Gordon Scott <gordon@mepsys.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,dc.org.linux-users