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Re: "random" number seeds vs. Netscape

To: [email protected] (Phil Karlton)
Subject: Re: "random" number seeds vs. Netscape
From: sameer <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 14:20:52 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: [email protected]
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Phil Karlton" at Sep 20, 95 08:14:26 pm
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>     weeks ago. The time spent on patching the current release will not
>     all go to waste, but it has cut down on my limited opportunities to
>     sleep.
> 
> For those that curious: being responsible for helping to fix a bug that
> is getting front page coverage in major newspapers is not nearly as
> much fun as it sounds.
> 

	This looks really good. I only wish your PR people wouldn't
spout the garbage that they do.

	In terms of your amounts of sleep-- If netscape had waited a
month before releasing the patch it would not have been doing any
worse than most OS vendors. Netscape is to be congratulated on the
quick response.


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References:
- "random" number seeds vs. Netscape
  - From: [email protected] (Phil Karlton)

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