Re: Stupid Licenses (YUCK!)

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From: Leonard Erickson
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:29

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charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Charles Geyer) writes:

>In article <1992Dec22.034142.14471@fsl.noaa.gov> bear@kestrel.fsl.noaa.gov
>(Bear Giles) asks:

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

>Why can't they just provide a release that fixes the old bugs without
>introducing (known) new ones?  Featurality first is the only explanation.

Well, I know of a case where this was tried, but one of the fixes involved
switching from a no longer supported (and *buggy*) comm library to a new
library that turned out to be buggier than expected. While waiting for
the fixes, the programmers decided to add a few of the "easy" features
users had been requesting. Which (of course) lead to a few new bugs.

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From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.security.misc,comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Stupid Licenses (YUCK!)
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Date: 29 Dec 92 00:29:45 GMT
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