Re: Stupid Licenses (YUCK!)

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From: Charles Geyer
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 17:05

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In article <bhayden.725514513@teal> bhayden@teal.csn.org (Bruce Hayden) writes:

> Again, if the vendor did legitimate regression testing before releasing
> the upgrade, you wouldn't have this problem. 

In article <1992Dec30.130805.28123@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com
(fred j mccall 575-3539) replies:

> Well, you wouldn't have it AS MUCH.  However, from reading your
> comments, it just doesn't seem that you've considered what kind of
> real-world problems you're talking about.

And in article <bhayden.725949329@teal> bhayden@teal.csn.org (Bruce Hayden)
replies:

> Well, I was in software development long enough (15 years) that I 
> have seen how it is done wrong more times than I can count. I have
> also seen it done right. My experience is that all it takes to do
> it right is proper planning and adequate resources. 

No doubt trying to do it right helps, but that's not enough.  The vast
majority of software suffers from Creeping Featurism or is Broken As Designed.
No amount of "good software engineering practice" will fix that.

You can't have quality software unless you put quality before featurality.

-- 
Charles Geyer
School of Statistics
University of Minnesota
charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu

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