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More options 19 Mar 2007, 23:58

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From: "diodesign" <diodes...@gmail.com>

Date: 19 Mar 2007 16:58:41 -0700

Local: Mon 19 Mar 2007 23:58

Subject: Re: So long and thanks for all the fish.

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On 19 Mar, 22:47, Steve Fryatt <n...@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote:

> On 19 Mar, Rob Kendrick wrote in message
> <pan.2007.03.19.20.40.06.239...@rjek.com>:

> > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:55:00 +0100, Stuart wrote:

> > > I am surprised, Rob, that someone like yourself has no understanding
> > > of the complexity of an operating system and the need to ensure that
> > > you /only/ release bits of it that really are your own property.

> > I fully understand the complexity of the issue at hand. My problem is
> > the delay between the hype and the delivery, which I think everybody
> > could have done without, and has nothing to do with the complexity of
> > their task.

> ISTR that the original announcement was kind of bounced out of them, as
> someone stumbled over the company registration and plastered details all
> over one of the news portals. Faced with that, and the subsequent
> rumour-mongering, I don't think they had much option but to come clean
> when they did.

That would have been Drobe, yes. It was a genuine newsworthy piece of
public interest.

Chris / drobe.co.uk

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