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Re: Omnis (Blyth) is using paying customers as beta testers !

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From: Cy Shuster
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 21:52
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I think it's an advantage to use a product with lots of known bugs.
It means it's been tested, for one thing, and that they've fixed
the most serious bugs.

It's making the first flight of a new aircraft that I'd be afraid
of.

It's perfectly possible to have hundreds of bugs against a product,
all of which take 25 or more steps to reproduce, or which are
sensitive only to unusual combinations of INITs. It's just not
realistic to expect bug-free software. Furthermore, you can make a
product gigantic by adding in endless error checking for brain-dead
inputs... and also send performance into the toilet, as well. I'm
sure the average person takes on many more risks driving his daily
commute (do you wear your seatbelt? Speed?).

Debugging is like giving a haircut: you fix the obvious problems, then
go around finishing things up until what you do hardly makes a
difference. 

--Cy--
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Subject: Re: Omnis (Blyth) is using paying customers as beta testers !
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