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From: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
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> Thats not my problem is it.

It probably isn't -- my mail was a reply to Jeff :-)

> There are vendors, there are free distributions too. 

Yes, but that's pretty irrelevant. People should not depend on such
sources to get security fixes. Anything so critical should be included
in the official kernel as soon as possible -- any reasons against?

				Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
Not all rumors are as misleading as this one.
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