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<h2><font color=#e00000>Year 2000 Compliance Statement</font><hr></h2>

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As part of our <a href=security.html>security audit</a>, we've done
significant work to audit the source tree for <strong>Y2K</strong>
flaws.  When found, these were fixed before the 2.3 release shipped.
We feel that we were pretty thorough -- we even found problems in the
dating of nroff-generated manpages.  Releases were carefully handled
to avoid introducing new flaws.

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A few extremely minor flaws were fixed in the 2.4 and 2.5 releases,
but all of these were problems without impact.  Most of these issues
related to programs that still printed dates in 2 digit form -- though
they would have correctly printed the year as 00 and not 100.  Not a
serious issue in our mind when considering that there are other
programs in the system which are required (by existing standards) to
print dates in such form.

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The 2.5 i386 port has a BIOS-related Y2K patch which people should apply.
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We recommend that paranoid people update to our latest release (which
should already be obvious considering our continual improvements to
security).

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A non-comprehensive list of the problems we solved can be gleaned from
our Changelogs (available on each CD in <strong>CD2:/Changelogs/</strong>)
or in our web-based <a href=plus.html>abbreviated daily log</a>.

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At this time, we do not know of any Y2K flaws.  If anyone becomes aware
of a flaw which we missed, please inform our developers so that it can
be fixed.

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If you want a guarantee from us, please read the copyright on our source
code files.  If you came here expecting a guarantee, perhaps you should
try extracting one from another source, like Microsoft.  Either you are
laughing now, or they will be laughing at you when you phone them.
Hopefully you now recognize how ridiculous it is to ask a free software
project for a guarantee when vendors making lots of money won't even do
so for their own software.

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