Re: BSD bugs -- round 2

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From: Wm E Davidsen Jr
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1989 13:37

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In article <29755@watmath.waterloo.edu>, gamiddleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton) writes:

|  I think Chris Torek pointed out that producing a verifiably working program
|  takes a lot of time, which CSRG doesn't have -- they are too busy working on
|  4.4BSD.

  This is an example of sleazy commercial mentality, "get it out the
door with lots of neat new features, and let the users beta test it."

  I'm only half kidding here.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon

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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.unix.wizards,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: BSD bugs -- round 2
Summary: Let the users beta test it
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Date: 4 Oct 89 13:37:04 GMT
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