Re: Stupid Licenses (YUCK!)

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From: Dale R. Worley
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 02:57

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In article <1992Dec31.125850.9263@qiclab.scn.rain.com> leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:
   Why can't they just provide a release that fixes the old bugs without
   introducing (known) new ones?  Featurality first is the only explanation.

Look at a magazine article that compares several software packages for
the same purpose.  There are many columns noting which features it
has, and none noting how buggy it is.  Users seem to be much more
interested in featurality than bugginess, at least before they
purchase the software.

Dale

Dale Worley		Dept. of Math., MIT		drw@math.mit.edu
--
Or, in the immortal words of Socrates, "I drank WHAT?"

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From: drw@paley.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
Subject: Re: Stupid Licenses (YUCK!)
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