On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 06:06:38PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> "Charles M. Hannum" <abuse@spamalicious.com> writes:
> > On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 03:45:54PM -0500, Kevin P. Neal wrote:
> > > 
> > > Say, that reminds me...
> > > 
> > > What are the chances of having TNF NetBSD cd's actually ready to ship
> > > when the next NetBSD release is announced? 
> > > 
> > > When 1.5 came out, DaemonNews Mall had Wasabi NetBSD ready to ship 
> > > that day (when I called to order), but TNF issue cd's weren't available
> > > yet.
> > 
> > This is because Wasabi controlled the release, effectively, and sent
> > their CD premasters out before the rest of the world (even me!) knew
> > that the release was ready.  If I hadn't pushed out a release
> > announcement, they probably would have actually been *shipping* discs
> > before the release was announced.
> > 
> > See `conflict of interest'.
> 
> So lets see.
> 
> You sent out the release announcement. But you weren't sure the
> release was ready. So you couldn't do disks.

Bzzzt.  The release announcement went out *after* I inquired as was told
by releng that the release was ready and was waiting for Wasabi to make
an announcement.  (And in fact it was *not* just me involved in this.)
I know the Wasabi premasters went out before that.

That the release waited a week and there was *still* no information from
Wasabi about what was going on was unacceptable.  It was only after the
fact that it came out that Wasabi had planned to send out the release
announcement and a Wasabi press release in the same package.  Again, see
`conflict of interest'.

> If you're going to go around libeling people, you at least need to
> have a consistent story.

This is not libel; it's fact.