jtc@motcad.portal.com (J.T. Conklin) (02/19/91)
In article <1991Feb18.175533.12275@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes: >SCO managed to get it working before their first release; AT&T and Dell >managed to get it "fixed" for their second release. All without having to >redesign an enormous program written entirely in assembly. Or would you >rather that the fpu emulator have more bugs introduced? Was the existance of this bug passed up the chain of command to AT&T and then distributed to all other sysv386 vendors, or did SCO, Dell, and AT&T keep it to themselves. If so, I consider SCO, Dell, and AT&T as much at fault as ISC, ESIX, Bell Tech, and Microport. Seriously, are bug reports/fixes passed back to AT&T or do vendors have some sort of bogus attitude that "bug fixes are propritary as they give us an edge over our competition." --jtc -- J.T. Conklin jtc@motcad.portal.com, ...!portal!motcad!jtc
sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) (02/19/91)
In article <1991Feb19.002252.15194@motcad.portal.com> jtc@motcad.portal.com (J.T. Conklin) writes: >Was the existance of this bug passed up the chain of command to AT&T and >then distributed to all other sysv386 vendors, or did SCO, Dell, and AT&T >keep it to themselves. If so, I consider SCO, Dell, and AT&T as much at >fault as ISC, ESIX, Bell Tech, and Microport. Uhm... AT&T gave out 3.2.1 to all of its source customers (as far as I know; everyone's comments [including some people from at&t] in this group seem to indicate that is the case); Dell, at least, used the AT&T 3.2.1 solution (whatever it is). AT&T may have gotten wind of it from SCO; I don't know. As far as I'm concerned, AT&T acted properly, and SCO does not have any compulsion (legally, at least, and probably ethicly) to give value added work (which included bug fixes) back to AT&T. After all, SCO pays AT&T for code, not vice-versa. -- Sean Eric Fagan | "I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it; sef@kithrup.COM | I had a bellyache at the time." -----------------+ -- The Turtle (Stephen King, _It_) Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.