On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> > the dependence
> > on a kernel over which Netraverse has no influence or insider knowledge,
>
> The 2.4.x kernel development was Open Source. There is no
> `insider' knowledge.
>
That is the point. It is open source, so EVERYONE has insider knowledge.
There are no secrets there are no trapdoors, there's just the code and a
whole bunch of free support for developers.
> > I think expecting to go from 1.0 to 3.0 for free is
> > excessive.
>
> They could call version 3.0 by a bigger number for all I care.
Well I think telling people that W4L 2.0 is going to be supported under a
2.4.x kernel and then not delivering and saying you're NOT going to
deliver is excessive.
>
> The point some of us are making is simply that we bought win4lin
> knowing kernel 2.4.x was nearly out. We often asked about 2.4.x
> support and were told to wait a bit. After waiting months, you
> tell us `You got to use win4lin for all of 6 months for the price
> you paid. What do you expect?'. We only got to use it for 6
> months because it took them 4 months to get support for the new
> kernel out the door. Had they released support for 2.4.x when
> the kernel came out, our copy of win4lin would have been only 2
> or 3 months old. Get it now?
Here here.
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Austin Gonyou
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Coremetrics, Inc.
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