On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Dan Busarow wrote:

On Feb 4, J Bacher wrote:

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1) Noone has suggested that the current public distribution would go away. What has been a point of concern is that the public may have to wait [too long?] for vendors to get their act together and publish patches before the new release hits the general distribution. A good many companies don't rely on vendor patches.

And since I have the source I am limited in what way? Paul has't changed anything the I can see aside from formalizing deals with the root operators. That's a good thing

Well, that's exactly my thought. From what I gather, the concern seems to be that there would be a delay in releasing the source to the general public until the vendors got their patches. My take is that the pre-release to the vendors afforded time for testing compatibility issues -- not that there would be a delay in releasing the source to the general public once ISC was satisfied that the code would behave as expected. That's why I called for a clarification. I think that the panic may be uncalled for. However, I also haven't seen anyone provide clarification to dissuade any concern.