Re: Stupid Licenses (YUCK!)

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From: Bruce Hayden
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:44

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leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:

>>> 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.

Appears to me to be a management problem, not a technical problem.

Bruce E. Hayden
(303) 758-8400
bhayden@csn.org

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