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Article #910Re: Stupid Licenses (YUCK!)
From: Erik Oliver
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 18:53
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 18:53
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Proving software correct is extremely difficult to do, and making sure that there are no "bugs" is even harder. For example, in the IBM-Compatible world, it is very hards to anticipate all of the possible setups that might have an incompatibility with your software. If my new product XYZ-Works doesn't work on a SuperDuper486DX/2 is that necessarily reflective of a bug in my software or a glitch in some part of the SuperDuper product? Because of the variety of IBM-Compatible products out there testing for every configuration is unrealistic, if not impossible. Even in the Mac world, there are problems that occur because of interactions between INITs and CDEVs with applications. Are these bugs? I think that if the manufacturers make good faith efforts to keep their product working and put out bug releases that is about as much as we can expect. Personally I think that the software produced by organizations like the FSF is better than a lot of commerical stuff because they are not afraid to keep updating their product and release slews of fixes as necessary. -Erik
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Newsgroups: comp.security.misc,comp.org.eff.talk Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!rock!stanford.edu!agate!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!news.cc.swarthmore.edu!ralph.cs.haverford.edu!eoliver From: eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver) Subject: Re: Stupid Licenses (YUCK!) Message-ID: <TDRVB3JX@cc.swarthmore.edu> Sender: news@cc.swarthmore.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: ralph.cs.haverford.edu Organization: Haverford College Computer Science Department References: <bhayden.724690634@teal> <1992Dec19.023609.26000@news2.cis.umn.edu> <bhayden.724865911@teal> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 18:53:28 GMT Lines: 21