From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261967AbTJ2XZw (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2003 18:25:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261973AbTJ2XZw (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2003 18:25:52 -0500 Received: from [66.62.77.7] ([66.62.77.7]:51854 "EHLO mail.gurulabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261967AbTJ2XZv (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2003 18:25:51 -0500 Subject: Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right From: Dax Kelson To: Hans Reiser Cc: andersen@codepoet.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3FA0475E.2070907@namesys.com> References: <3F9F7F66.9060008@namesys.com> <20031029224230.GA32463@codepoet.org> <3FA0475E.2070907@namesys.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1067466349.3077.274.camel@mentor.gurulabs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-5) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:25:49 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 16:03, Hans Reiser wrote: > If they have a beta today, and we are not doing anything today in that > area, they are probably going to beat us to shipping something in that > area unless we make a real effort. That means well-earned advantage for > them. Except, they didn't release a beta. They released a developer preview (not even alpha), mostly to show off the APIs. AFAIK the developer preview has no WinFS bits in it at all. Dax Kelson Guru Labs