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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: posting fixes, license, and the u-area bug
Message-ID: <1991Mar2.074617.19341@ico.isc.com>
Date: 2 Mar 91 07:46:17 GMT
References: <1991Feb21.141349.26015@virtech.uucp> <1141@gistdev.gist.com> <1991Mar1.155948.23736@pegasus.com>
Organization: Interactive Systems Corporation, Boulder, CO
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See richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)'s article for the disagreement. 
Here, I'd just like to point out a couple of facts.

First, I have no idea whether anyone in ISC did contact AT&T, or consider
contacting them, asking for permission to post a fix.  I'm not in a place
to know all they've considered or attempted.  I was only expressing *my*
personal opinion that there were sound reasons to think that might not be
an expedient approach.

Second, in response to Richard's conclusion:

> One begins to wonder if ISC's motto isn't something like:
> 
>     `Well, it probably can't be done ... and I'm too busy to check'

...I would like to emphasize that I do not speak for ISC.  I am not in
Support, nor affiliated with it.  Neither am I in the Product group.  I'm
not even in Santa Monica where the product work is done.  Therefore, if
you feel Richard's "motto" is an appropriate reaction to what I posted,
please apply it to me personally, not to ISC as a whole.  It is a reaction
to my opinions, not ISC's.
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870
   ...But is it art?