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  From: Ca <ca@kablex.com.au>
  To  : Alan Kennington <Alan.Kennington@dsto.defence.gov.au>
  Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:02:34 +1030

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

I was just wondering if any one had done the obiouios,
Setting your computer clock forward to a few min untill the year 2000 and
waiting for it to click over, then run it for the next week looking for new
problems

Adam

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-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Kennington <Alan.Kennington@dsto.defence.gov.au>
To: ara@newave.net.au <ara@newave.net.au>
Cc: Alan Kennington <alan.kennington@dsto.defence.gov.au>; LinuxSA
<linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
Date: Friday, November 27, 1998 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: To the LINUX Advocates/Evangelists among us...


>To [name unknown]:
>
>There's a much simpler way forward than has been discussed here.
>Just wait for 13 months, and see what happens.
>13 months is not a long time, and linux is still not
>quite ready to take over the world.
>I'm sure that we can all be pretty certain that linux OS and
>applications and virtually all of the GNU stuff will suffer nothing
>at all from the year 2000 turnover.
>
>It's better for a modest competitor to stay modest, and just prove
>itself by deeds. If/when there are dire consequences for other
>OSs (and probably most problems that do occur will _not_ be in
>PC software, but rather in large business databases, online systems,
>mainframes etc.), linux will just come out unscathed, without
>having to make a single claim.
>Better to be understated than overstated.
>
>In the meantime, we have 13 months to keep improving linux software,
>while many other people are wasting their energies fretting over a crunch
>that won't really happen until about the year 2038, January 18, at
>about half past 3 in the afternoon UTC.
>
>Conclusion:
>Linux is better for the hacker even if the rest of the world
>does not convert to it.
>There's no benefit to linux users in giving a guarantee.
>It might even be better if the world does _not_ convert to linux.
>Then it would become standardised by standardisation bodies,
>regulated by governments, and boring and conventional.
>And then we could have to invent a new rebel OS.
>[I can imagine the fighters for open source turning around and
>demanding the right to private source!]
>
>Conclusion of the conclusion:
>One should not give any guarantees about y2k at all.
>Let's just keep our heads down until it fizzes like the
>so-called meteor shower of the century.
>[I could have been writing good software that night!]
>
>Cheers,
>Alan Kennington.
>
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