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Article #63425Re: uunet as a contact for the LPF smacks of favoritism.
From: Hwa-Jin Bae
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 1995 20:48
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 1995 20:48
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In article <robertl.792007755@amsg>, Robert Lipe <robertl@arnet.com> wrote: > >It's wildly unrealistic to think that each day the tree is tested >on the dozens (hundreds?) of host/target combinations. When they >do have enough combinations that have had suitable air-time, they >release them. the point of my articles is not that cygnus should make available any and all snapshots dialy. that is not at all related to the point in question. the real point is that: when a stable quarterly release is made to cygnus own customers the same release should also be made available to non-customers at the same time. this is a matter of policy, not of mechanism. if the policy is against the distribution at the same time, mechanisms do not matter. according to cygnus' own people, some software they work on are made available to the net first (despite the claims in their own marketing literature), while some are never made available to the public.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,16f9059ee24a2cdc X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-02-06 13:07:13 PST Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!hjb From: hjb@netcom.com (Hwa-Jin Bae) Subject: Re: uunet as a contact for the LPF smacks of favoritism. Message-ID: <hjbD3LJ5G.BDp@netcom.com> Organization: Peaceful Star, Oakland, CA References: <3gbuc0$ptd@umd5.umd.edu> <3gtrbn$fo7@hermes.synopsys.com> <hjbD3GvD2.6z2@netcom.com> <robertl.792007755@amsg> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 20:48:52 GMT Lines: 18