Re: Bugs in the BSD sources ??

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1989 06:08

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In article <1802@cooper.cooper.EDU> hak@cooper.cooper.EDU (Jeff Hakner ) writes:
>	Are the BSD sources, archived @uunet, among other places,
>	the sources to actual, working, tested programs?

Uh, this may come as a surprise, but universities generally do not have
quality-control departments.  Alas.  And considering some of the screwups
that come out of places that *have* QC departments, like Sun, it should
not be surprising that free software is sometimes worth what it costs.
(Fortunately, it's *usually* worth more.)
-- 
"Where is D.D. Harriman now,   |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
when we really *need* him?"    | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu

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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Bugs in the BSD sources ??
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