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- 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
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- References: <1993Jan23.123005.337@rlgsc.com> <1993Jan26.011121.21455@Princeton.EDU> <1993Jan27.003716.3226@decuac.dec.com>,<1k8qmhINN9jd@sol.tis.com>
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- In article <1k8qmhINN9jd@sol.tis.com>, mjr@tis.com (Marcus J Ranum) writes:
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- > 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? :)
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- 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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