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Re: xfs removed from ftp?

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Subject: Re: xfs removed from ftp?
From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 20:04:17 -0800
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On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 01:42:20PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 21:36:23 -0400 (EDT), 
> Net Llama! <netllama@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Zeitgeist wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 18:42, Net Llama! wrote:
> >> > On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Martin Spott wrote:
> >> >
> >> > On the good news front, a person who wishes to remain anonymous told me
> >> > that everything should be back on the server within a few days, once 
> >> > SGI's
> >> > legal dept puts together a statement.
> >>
> >> Why is SGI bending their ass over for these losers?
> >
> >I can't answer that question, because i don't work for SGI.  If i had to
> >speculate, i'd say its primarily because SGI is alot smaller (and
> >unfortunately, less stable) of a company than IBM.
> 
> For SGI's response, see http://oss.sgi.com/letter_100103.txt
> Paragraphs 4 and 5 answer this question.
> 
> Not speaking for SGI, IANAL, etc.

also the xfs dir is available now, but no code is there yet.  however
there is a README explaining this:

ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/README

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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