Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!caesar.cs.montana.edu!ogccse!emory!cambridge.apple.com!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!tut!santra!hemuli.atk.vtt.fi!localhost!tml From: tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: HP-UX: unacceptable [Was: root-over-nfs under HP-UX 6.5] Message-ID: Date: 24 Nov 89 23:57:23 GMT References: <2130002@hpiag0.IAG.HP.COM> Sender: news@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland, Comp Serv (VTT/ATK) Lines: 22 In-reply-to: tai@hpiag0.IAG.HP.COM's message of 23 Nov 89 06:07:34 GMT In article <2130002@hpiag0.IAG.HP.COM> tai@hpiag0.IAG.HP.COM (Tai Jin) writes: If you already have an archive, please let everyone know about it. I have a little of this and that ported to HP-UX available here at hemuli.atk.vtt.fi. Internet address 130.188.52.2. No, don't ask for stuff by mail. So what we need is an efficient scheme for customers to get early releases of software while benefitting both HP and the customers. Do you have any suggestions? Does HP consider the changes it has had to make to freely available software likes RCS, sendmail and ftp proprietary? (I can guess the answer, and I suppose the same goes for the other vendors, too, so we can't flame HP for that.) I guess it is no hope that HP would make these changes public, so that those who want to compile the latest ftp, for instance, wouldn't have to figure it out themselves. After all, there wouldn't be much left of the ARPA/Berkeley Services product if these changes were made publicly available :-) -- Tor Lillqvist, VTT/ATK