Messages in this thread | | | Subject | *** Draft 8 Final - Press Release *** | From | Nathan Myers <> | Date | Sun, 24 Jan 1999 23:39:24 -0800 |
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I have just one question about this "Press Release". If nobody posting drafts is really interested in improvements, why post the drafts at all?
I have seen spelling errors, grammatical follies, and entirely nonsensical statements propagated uncorrected from draft to draft. For example, the "latest" still has the almost-idiotic:
This update includes an advanced collection of low-level features.
What in blazes is an "advanced collection"? How is one collection more "advanced" than another? Who would want a bunch of "low-level features" when they could have high-level ones?
I posted replacement text in
http://www.linuxhq.com/lnxlists/linux-kernel/lk_9901_03/msg01519.html
which fixes this and other problems. The "final" draft, incidentally, also introduces a new misspelling which I will point out if anybody is really interested.
Maybe union rules require that press releases contain really dumb mistakes, but what does it say about the reliability of open-source software if we can't even get a bloody two-page press release right? [Rhetorical question.]
Nathan Myers ncm@cantrip.org
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