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Article #4498Re: Patches online, was Re: Unix Review review of Alpha/OSF
From: Doug Mohney
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:33
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:33
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In article <1k8qmhINN9jd@sol.tis.com>, mjr@tis.com (Marcus J Ranum) writes:
> 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".
I dunno. Anyone got a friend on DEC's board of directors? :)
Starting a revolution from outside seems to have gotten the attention of
stone-heads at IBM and GM.
I have talked to Ehud, and lived.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!darwin.sura.net!mojo.eng.umd.edu!cadlab.eng.umd.edu!SYSMGR From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney) 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 16:33:46 GMT Organization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park Lines: 19 Message-ID: <1k91taINNbi8@mojo.eng.umd.edu> References: <1993Jan23.123005.337@rlgsc.com> <1993Jan26.011121.21455@Princeton.EDU> <1993Jan27.003716.3226@decuac.dec.com>,<1k8qmhINN9jd@sol.tis.com> Reply-To: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: queen.eng.umd.edu