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In <connolly.657825420@convex.convex.com> connolly@convex.com (Dan Connolly) writes:


>The GNU development effort is different from typical commercial vendors in
>that it's largely "user contributed" and comes "with no warranty, expressed
>or implied." In short, no company rests its reputation on the quality of GNU
>software.

>The result is that the software is strong on features, but sort of beta-test
>quality. The maintainers typically respond outstandingly to bug reports and
>feature requests, but folks who download GNU code still have to count on a 
>certain amount of mucking about before everything installs and runs correctly.



I have news for you:  Lots of rather expensive software is
sort of beta-test or in some cases sort of alpha-test.


I would certainly like to see a GNU kernel.  

I'm breaking the tradition here by not volunteering to help, but I'm
not a progrmmer.  Does anyone need a beginning computer engineer?
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