Yes I did, and sorry if I misunderstood you.


On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Ted Lemon wrote:

> 
> > I don't think rudeness is called for.  I read it as constructive criticism
> >
> > > Hm.   If you have money at stake and 70 developers working on your
> > > project, and you can't afford to get to know the Alpha port in depth,
> > > maybe you shouldn't be using it...
> 
> I'm not following you, Tom.   I don't see any rudeness in the above
> statement.   I think it's a fair statement that if you can afford 70
> engineers to work on your product, but you can't afford one full-time
> engineer to track NetBSD/Alpha, then you probably hadn't ought to be
> using it - it's not in a state yet where it makes sense to put it into
> a product offering if you don't have any local expertise on it.
> 
> By contrast, several other companies that I know of who are using (or
> considering using) NetBSD/Alpha in product offerings or production
> environments have at least one full-time engineer whose job it is to
> track NetBSD/Alpha and fix it if there are problems.   To expect, at
> this stage in the development process, that you can use it without
> that investment strikes me as extremely unrealistic.   I don't think
> it's rude to point this out.   Did you perceive my statement as rude
> because I wasn't sufficiently clear, or do you still think I'm being
> rude?
> 
> 			       _MelloN_
>