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From: werme@Alliant.COM (Ric Werme)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: posting fixes, license, and the u-area bug
Message-ID: <4528@alliant.Alliant.COM>
Date: 4 Mar 91 19:12:26 GMT
References: <1141@gistdev.gist.com> <1991Feb23.080050.21181@ico.isc.com> <1991Mar1.155948.23736@pegasus.com>
Organization: Alliant Computer Systems Corp.
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In article <1991Mar1.155948.23736@pegasus.com> richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
>Given the egregiousness of the bug in question it would seem quite
>reasonable for someone at ISC to make such an effort.

[to get permission to post AT&T source code.]

Given the egregious nature of this bug and that it came from an AT&T release,
it would seem quite reasonable for AT&T to post an apology and their fix.
Of course, it probably wouldn't work on ISC's code, but it could provide
a basis for a fix ISC could post.

I wonder if AT&T is embarassed at all.

Given all the flames directed at ISC, I'm surprised people haven't flamed
AT&T.  Maybe they have means to detect such messages sent over AT&T lines....
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