Re: gnu manifesto

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From: Piet Beertema
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1989 11:37

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	I see no reason why the average bug rate should be
	any less than in the average commercial product.
Bugs in commercial products in general take a long, long
time before they're fixed. Bugs in public domain software
are usually fixed at an amazing speed, thanks to the whole
community rather than a single vendor contributing to it.
Proof of it can be found in all the bug fixes that appear
on the news.

	Fact is that a lot of the software delivered by computer vendors is
	so good that there is no need for me to rewrite it.
A lot of software is good, a lot of software is somewhere
between slightly broken and rightout rotten.

	If they are better, why doesn't Stallman sell it:
	advantage 1: he gets more money for more people to make more remakes.
disadvantage 1: he wouldn't get free support anymore from
the community, which is normally crucial for public domain
software.

-- 
	Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam	(piet@cwi.nl)
	"Money and news ain't what it used to be...."

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From: piet@cwi.nl (Piet Beertema)
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Subject: Re: gnu manifesto
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