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  From: Michael Pearson <alcaron@ozemail.com.au>
  To  : SBS expt <ara@newave.net.au>
  Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 10:23:36 +1030 (CST)

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

> OK... so - by you - LINUX fails a test for
> suitability for real-world usage?
> 
> Are you therefore suggesting that anyone
> who INSTALLS such an operating system may
> suffer the same "inconvenience(s)" as are
> posited above...?

Read the GPL. GPL'ed software (which 90% of linux stuff is) comes with no
warranty etc etc. What this means is:

- The gov would probably not accept it on their page anyway
- We would either not suffer any lawsuit, or be charged with misquoting a
license or suchlike.
- I'm not saying that GPL'ed software is buggy, but with anything that
doesn't come with a warranty, the Y2K bug is the least of your
problems.

Something like the above, anyway.

--

Michael Pearson 
 -Freelance network consultancy
For more info mail:
 -alcaron@ozemail.com.au 

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