tower@AI.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) (11/25/90)
From: rms@ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 90 14:55:06 -0500 To: tower Subject: Please post a message in comp.unix.aix Please post this for me in comp.unix.aix. Subject: Please don't spread pre-test releases Please disregard the suggestion recently made that people should get the pre-test version of 18.56. It is a pre-test because it isn't ready for ordinary use. Redistribution of the pre-test is permitted in a legal sense, but it isn't a good idea. Advising ordinary users to get the pre-test is also not a good idea. Pre-testers should be people who want to investigate bugs, and are willing to throw away the pre-test as soon as the real release comes out. Otherwise, there is a danger that pre-test releases will be propagated, with all their bugs. I deleted emacs.xtar to make sure this doesn't happen now.