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Article #11180Re: All Commercial Software Developers or Companies (pls read)
From: Jon Matousek
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 18:13
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 18:13
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In article <5363@ryn.mro4.dec.com> long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) writes: >... >... > It would also be great if software companies took some responsibility in > their licence agreements, instead of disclaiming everything! I agree with the above statement. Unfortunately the disclaimers are driven by lawyers, not the moral desire of a software company. To counter the disclaimers, Paragon places bugs, especially crashing or corrupting bugs, at the top of its agenda. I've seen Nisus burn off a couple of maintenance revs in short order, just because crashing bugs were discovered. On the same subject, but a slightly different perspective, it should be realized that beta testers will not catch everything. No matter how hard you try to find all of the bugs, there will always be some that slip by. Nisus must pass through beta testers, hours running a random "monkey" macro, and a macro that test major features. It is truely difficult to find all of the bugs in a program that contains several hundred thousand lines of source code. With this in mind, it is my personal opinion that the end user needs to realize that he/she has a responsibility to report problems (or ideas) about software they are using to the developers of the software. This is because software is a fluid medium, it is forever being improved upon. -jOn -------------------------------------------------------------------------- %% SoftwareEngineer: jOn mAtOUsEk; Internet: jon@weber.ucsd.edu %% Bitnet: jmatousek@ucsd Paragon Concepts, Inc. AppleLink: D0405 990 Highland Drive, #312 Solana Beach, Ca. 92075 Voice: (619)481-1477 USA FAX: (619)481-6154 ==========================================================================
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!think.com!mintaka!ogicse!ucsd!network.ucsd.edu!weber.ucsd.edu!jon From: jon@weber.ucsd.edu (Jon Matousek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: All Commercial Software Developers or Companies (pls read) Summary: The good, the bad, and the ugly--how does one find good software? Message-ID: <5513@network.ucsd.edu> Date: 27 Jun 91 18:13:22 GMT References: <5363@ryn.mro4.dec.com> Sender: news@network.ucsd.edu Organization: Paragon Concepts, Inc. Lines: 37 Nntp-Posting-Host: weber.ucsd.edu