Re: Stupid Licenses (YUCK!)

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From: Bear Giles
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 03:41

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In article <1992Dec19.023609.26000@news2.cis.umn.edu> charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Charles Geyer) writes:
>
>... and whether product is simply
>not shipped with known serious bugs.

The trivial solution is to not test for bugs....

Seriously, in an ideal world the existing software would be bug-free and
you could afford to wait until your new release is bug-free... but today
the current version is _not_ bug-free.

Would you postpone a release with known bugs (documented in a 'here there
be dragons' addendum) which would replace a previous, more buggy version?

What about a release with significant improvements which just happened
to crash if you had a really obscure combination of hardware and software?
What if the company offered you a free upgrade (or other compensation)
if its software twigged on this odd combination?

Or what if the software only had problems on really old systems which
should have been upgraded a long time ago? ("Gee, I'm running DOS 2.8
on a 5 MHz XT and your program doesn't seem to work!")  How long do
you need to keep providing upgrades for existing platforms?

Bear Giles
bear@fsl.noaa.gov/colorado.edu

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