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Received: from hamster.hrz.uni-giessen.de (hamster.hrz.uni-giessen.de [134.176.2.4]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA15804 for <executor@nacm.com>; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 11:59:36 -0700 Received: from smail.hrz.uni-giessen.de by hamster.hrz.uni-giessen.de; Mon, 3 Jul 95 20:59:31 +0200 Received: by smail.hrz.uni-giessen.de (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03 JLUG spez smail U437398) id AA07451; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 21:00:06 +0200 Message-Id: <9507031900.AA07451@smail.hrz.uni-giessen.de> Date: Mon, 03 Jul 95 20:59:47 EDT From: Peter.Bramlage@med.uni-giessen.de (Peter Bramlage) Reply-To: Peter.Bramlage@med.uni-giessen.de (Peter Bramlage) To: executor@nacm.com X-Mailer: PMMail v1.1 UNREGISTERED SHAREWARE Subject: Re: WHEN??? Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk On Sun, 2 Jul 1995 23:18:27 -0700 (PDT) you wrote: >> 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 > He has my full support. We are talking about a beta and compare this beta with 1.2 . Forget it. We should be glad to have such a nice beta at all. --Peter Bramlage