[807] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Third party Athena software for Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Nov 16 15:38:35 1994
To: "Naomi B. Schmidt" <nschmidt@MIT.EDU>
Cc: ghudson@MIT.EDU, yandros@MIT.EDU, nygren@MIT.EDU, goguen@MIT.EDU,
cavan@MIT.EDU, reidmp@MIT.EDU, lavin@MIT.EDU, dot@MIT.EDU,
katiel@MIT.EDU, tkrall@MIT.EDU, alexp@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Nov 1994 15:02:54 EST."
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Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 15:37:56 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Hi, Naomi.
I think we can agree with the partnership you mentioned. We've
already been doing a great deal of Linux support, and I don't think
this would greatly add to our load. Naturally, as a volunteer
organization, we can't necessarily guarantee timeliness in delivering
reports on third-party software, or extremely good support, but we do
a fairly good job on average.
If you want a formal commitment, we'll have to wait for the next SIPB
meeting on Monday and discuss it there, but I think we can give you an
informal agreement right now. I think we would prefer a situation
where we would have both the responsibility and the power to ensure
that there is support for third-party applications under Linux, and I
think the proposed agreement does a good job of that.
