Re: In reply to comments about new policy
rick@msc.cornell.edu
Thu, 1 Dec 1994 15:51:05 -0500 (EST)
Bela Lubkin writes:
> I'm not trying to make excuses for SCO: 8LGM did tell us about these
> bugs quite a while ago (though in inconsistent fashion). We were
> slacking; we'd had more than enough time to produce fixes. We didn't
> really start working on it until they said they were going to post the
> advisories. (That is, we'd checked fixes into future sources, but
> hadn't gone back to create binaries that would be compatible with our
> shipping products). We started working in earnest on a set of fixes
> when they told us they were going to post the advisories. My complaint
> is that after we told them this, they refused to delay the advisories
> long enough for us to deliver those fixes. (They have now been
> delivered, in haste and poorly packaged).
cat . . . bag . . . out
evidence . . .
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