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Subject*** Draft 8 Final - Press Release ***
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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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