[ut3] Official release date

Kevin Guillaume kevin.guillaume at gmx.net
Sat Feb 7 04:58:30 EST 2009


On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 22:37 -0700, Brizz Cardon wrote:
> Even if they said "Natural gas stations will be coming to your area
> soon"

That's only an analogy if that car manufacturer is also the one who
makes the gas stations. It *IS* Epic who makes the Linux binaries. (or
rather, not.)

Epic promised they would deliver a Linux client in the box. Now if we
can bring an analogy that's a little closer to the reality; Imagine they
had promised a Windows Client and a Linux client (just as they did), and
only delivered the /Linux/ client? Would there be *ANY QUESTION AT ALL*
that they failed to deliver as promised? Would anybody be telling the
Windows users who pre-ordered that they should have read the
non-existent box before they pre-ordered? No, I don't fscking think so.

Yes, you can argue economics, buying power, a scale that is orders of
magnitude greater, and the possible end of Epic itself in such a
scenario, but you *cannot* argue that as a matter of principle and as a
matter of fact, that they failed to deliver as promised and as
advertised.




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