Monday, October 9, 2000

Pondering the Imponderable -- 7:18 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Well, I'm back! Didja miss me? I didn't think so. My NFL picks are back where they belong this week. With only tonight's Vikes-Bucs game left on the schedule, I am a sterling 10-3. Eeyore is 7-6 so far. Now to dig up some more news . . .

Last week, Slashdot "reported" that Red Hat 7.0 had 2,500 bugs. Linux Today posted an article on Red Hat's latest release and some of the furor that has surrounded it. According to Red Hat VP of Product Engineering, Eric Troan, this was the reality behind all those bugs:

First of all, the 2,500 number was all of the open bugs in our ticket system for all releases of all products. It includes engineering requests as well as our engineers internal todo lists for future releases.

That pretty much explains why I was never able to even come close to verifying that number. Slashdot still has not corrected the original article. I find it very interesting that Slashdot seems very keen on accusing Microsoft of using FUD as a weapon, but they are more than happy to use it themselves when they find a convenient target.

News for 10/09/2000

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