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SubjectRe: Source Code Release of NWFS 2.0 for 2.2/2.3/2.4
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orc@pell.portland.or.us (david parsons) said:
> In article <linux.kernel.20000208152622.A13656@titan.tetracon-eng.net>,
> J. Scott Kasten <jsk@titan.tetracon-eng.net> wrote:

> >Perhaps you've never worked in a real Operating System development
> >environment before. Things get broken all the time in coporations
> >as the developers grow their products into the next official
> >product release.

> Perhaps it's just me, but doesn't ``but everyone else does it !!!''
> seem like a bit of a copout? Yes, Jeff may have been drunk when
> he posted his original post, but a cry of ``broken interfaces: Not
> A Bug, But A Feature!' seems more like seconding his post instead
> of refuting it.

What is being said is that _during development_ stuff gets redone and at
times broken. By definition of "development". With WinNT, Solaris, SCO et
al you don't ever see the development versions. Everybody sees them (and
some fools even use them day to day :) with Linux.
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