From: Adam Quantrill (aquantrill_at_scigen.co.uk)
Date: Wed Apr 05 2000 - 10:26:59 EDT
And you get the source, so you can fix your own TCP/IP bugs!
- Adam
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Subject: Extracting a fix out of IBM for OS/2
Author: MIME:"STeve Andre'" <andres_at_msu.edu> at INTERNET
Date: 4/5/00 2:20 PM
I'm impressed that you were able to get a fix out of them for OS/2, but don't expect
it to happen often in the future. As good as it was in its heyday, OS/2 has no future
whatsoever. Microsoft saw to that when they changed enough ot the internals of
Win 95 such that OS/2 couldn't deal with it.
I suppose IBM is stuck doing some supporting of OS/2 still, for any government contracts they have that used it. If I'm not mistaken, they'll have to support it for
10 years I think, after some point of stopping selling it (or something like that).
At this point I wouldn't do anything new with OS/2. There are too many neat and
free alternatives (OpenBSD, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, ...) which are ultimately more powerful--and have a greater population of folks who can do things with it.
STeve Andre'
At 03:35 PM 4/5/00 -0500, sehh of H.I.C. & D.B.S. wrote:
>heh last time i contacted IBM was to report a bug in the tcpip stack of >OS/2, and
>they told me to pay them money to get it fixed! >
>Now is that normal? You ask people to pay you, to fix your own bugs??? >
>So me and the two other people who were working on some os/2 web servers got >so pissed off at them, we made about 20 calls and finally got an >'interview' with
>a few IBM managers via phone. We emailed them the debug code, our custom >program
>that helped them reporoduce the bug and 24 hours later we got a call from the >guy who actualy made the OS/2 tcpip port! He fixed the bug in a few hours.
>
>Moral of the story? You have to either know the right people or pay loads >of money to
>make them do something.
>
>p H.I.C. & D.B.S. p OS/2 Warp p Hellas p >p ServerConfig p ConfigEdit p OS/2 UK UG p
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