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  From: Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
  To  : SBS expt <ara@newave.net.au>
  Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 12:00:59 +1030 (CST)

Re: To the LINUX Advocates/Evangelists among us...

SBS expt wrote:

 >  Has anyone thought of getting LINUX and/or its Y2K-
 >  Compliant Applications listed (on the former), &/or
 >  a page (e.g. on *each* LINUX vendor's Web Site) that
 >  states that LINUX from them is Y2K Compliant...?
 >  If not now, when [Geoffrey, et al.]...?      ;)

Great idea.  Who wants to become legally responsible for any mishaps
that might occur if some part of the GNU system that hasn't been looked
at carefully enough or any vendor-supplied tools reveal y2k glitches?  I
can see that it might be fascinating to get lawsuits from people you've
never heard of before, and it would be a wonderful opportunity to learn
all kinds of things about our legal system that you otherwise wouldn't
get to experience.

And which distribution?  Should we have separate fall-guys for Debian,
SuSE, RedHat, Slackware, etc, or should we just get one person to absorb
all the lawsuits for all of them?

Any volunteers?

   - mark :-)

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