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From: nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Subject: Re: NeoSoft and the Patchkit (was Re: Patchkit Patches 00077 through 00082 Now Available)
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In article <C2MqyA.K9M@sugar.neosoft.com> karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>If anyone saw my what-should-we-do posting don't bother responding.
>
>I feel bad and it is hard not to be angry at Nate for "giving us" the
>patchkit and then "taking it away from us."

If anyone is interested in what happened, email BOTH me and Karl and
we can tell you our versions of the story.  Rather than starting a flame-
fest here, I'll leave it at that.

>
>After he deleted files from a NeoSoft directory on ref without consulting us
>it became really, really hard to not be absolutely furious.
>
>Further, I think it really sucks that he would make those patches unavailable 
>to everyone without getting them into "his" kit.

It had nothing to do with "my" kit, but if you are going to provide
patches in the patchkit format, provide patches in the patchkit format. 
Don't provide patches that didn't fit the standard, and would cause more
grief than help.

>
>But in a spirit of cameraderie with the net we are *not* going to try to
>usurp Nate's unilateral plan to pass his mantle on to Jordan.

That's great.  It would be great if you could help out Jordan with the
new patchkit, but if that is not something your comfortable with, then
that's your choice.

>Regards,
>
>Karl Lehenbauer
>Member of Technical Staff
>NeoSoft
>-- 
>-- Email info@NeoSoft.com for info on getting interactive Internet access.
>"I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead."
>-- Twain


Happy to be out of the patchkit co-ordination business,


Nate
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