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Re: Patches online, was Re: Unix Review review of Alpha/OSF

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From: Marcus J Ranum
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:30
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rye@scmbrd.dco.dec.com (Bill Rye) writes:
>2) I think that instead of discussing it here, we should do something about it.
>I propose the following: Send me a mail message (since I've already marked
>most of the news messages as read, and came into this discussion in the
>middle,) containing the following information:
>
>	Why DEC should post patches on the internet.
[...]


	Bill, your heart is in the right place, but your horse is dead,
and maybe it's cruelty to animals to flog it further. Gail Grant has
already tried exactly what you're suggesting. Before Gail tried it, I
tried it informally. Gail managed to get the input up to a VP level I
believe before it got stonewalled/sidetracked/ignored/bitbucketted.

	I think an accurate statement of the situation is "They just
don't get it".

	Perhaps if Gail is still out there, she can comment on how the
previously solicited customer input was received?

mjr.
-- 
                                                 "guns don't die. people do."
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From: mjr@tis.com (Marcus J Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Patches online, was Re: Unix Review review of Alpha/OSF
Date: 28 Jan 1993 14:30:41 GMT
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