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- Received: (from teverett@localhost) by osiris.ac.hmc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA20222; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 23:18:27 -0700
- From: Tobermory Everett <teverett@osiris.ac.hmc.edu>
- Message-Id: <199507030618.XAA20222@osiris.ac.hmc.edu>
- Subject: Re: WHEN???
- To: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford Thomas Matthews)
- Date: Sun, 2 Jul 1995 23:18:27 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: executor@nacm.com
- In-Reply-To: <m0sSZmT-00000BC@beaut.ardi.com> from "Clifford Thomas Matthews" at Jul 2, 95 06:54:00 pm
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- Clifford Thomas Matthews wrote:
- > Dan> When is ARDI going to release 1.99n? This is getting
- > Dan> discussing! I don't care about a few bugs. I mean, 1.99n was
- > Dan> sceduled to be released acouple weeks ago, not to mention
- > Dan> that 2.0 was supposed to be a year ago!
- >
- > Almost all of ARDI's engineering work is done by three people: Mat
- > Hostetter, Cotton Seed and myself. All three of us are working almost
- > all our waking hours on Executor. If bugs are found that are
- > "showstoppers", a release date will slip; there's almost no way to
- > speed things up since we're already working at full capacity. If, on
- > top of that, one of us has a mother-in-law rushed to the hospital,
- > that will only make things worse.
- I try to avoid jumping on people, but when I see people jumping all over
- ARDI it really ticks me off. ARDI is doing an _incredible_ job. We aren't
- talking Microsloth or IBM or even Borland here, we are talking _three_ guys
- working with almost no funding and pulling off a _very_ impressive coding
- feat. The fact that they manage to get as much done as they do frankly
- astounds me. The fact that someone who can't even spell disgusting is
- jumping all over three guys who are pulling almost superhuman efforts to
- support a product they are practically giving away make me want to vomit.
- Please, a show of hands for ARDI. Keep up the good work and frankly, when
- you are happy with 1.99n, release it, but not until then. In the meantime,
- everyone else take two Valium and see the shrink in the morning.
-
- --Toby Everett
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