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On 10/28/92@12:22:55 AM, Mike Steiner was heard to say regarding
"Autodoubler & other transparent compression progs:" 

>>  MS> I'm using Stuffit SpaceSaver, and have absolutely no problems with it 
>>  MS> (other than one with BBEdit that Leonard Rosenthall gave me a
>>  MS> workaround for, and that he said he had fixed--now to get the
>>  MS> fix from him <g>). I am very pleased with it.


To which Rick Zeman (Rick.Zeman@p943.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org) replied
(in article <720410842.AA00000@blkcat.UUCP>):

>>      Geez, Mike, either you're incredibly lucky or incredibly blessed.  SSS
>>is LADEN with bugs--non destructive bugs, but bugs nonetheless.  Phantom 
>>compression and decompression of files that aren't even marked as files to
>>be compressed, interferes with PrintMonitor in many, many applications.
>>I'm lucky:  I just added a 330 meg drive so I could turn it off!  ;-)


Which prompted Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@netcom.com) to blurt out (in
article <1992Oct30.042204.13779@netcom.com>):

>	I think the use of the word laden (especially capitalized) is WAY
>off base, Rick!  Sure, SpaceSaver has some bugs (two of which you mention
>and both of which are fixed for the upcoming 1.0.2 update), but so does
>EVERY other piece of software on the market.  


Which got me to thinking. Leonard, and any other software development
professionals out there, I would ask of you this: Why is it, in your
opinion, that beta-testing seems to pass more bugs than it used to? I
remember getting games and applications for my old Apple II+ that worked
flawlessly -- why now do we have such problems that the current "joke"
is:

Q: What's the new name for beta software?

A: Version 1.0

--Jim, just curious.
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