Subj : Re: Solaris
To   : Lawrence Garvin
From : William McBrine
Date : Sun Oct 29 2000 05:08 am

-=> Lawrence Garvin wrote to William McBrine <=-

 WM> If you judged the currency of a distribution by a book, you'd be
 WM> making a grave error, as the books tend to lag quite a bit.

 LG> COPYRIGHT... William.. COPYRIGHT.. that's the date that established
 LG> that something existed _IN_THAT_YEAR (or perhaps, PRIOR to that year.
 LG> :-)

Very prior, in this case. The copyright date in a book applies only to that 
book, not the accompanying distro. It usually takes many months for the books 
to catch up once a new version of a distro is available -- by which time the 
distro itself has often moved on to another version.

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