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Article #74178Re: Specialized software
From: Hamish Macdonald
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1991 00:15
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1991 00:15
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>>>>> On 6 Jul 91 22:23:25 GMT, >>>>> In message <1991Jul6.222325.13344@cs.umb.edu>, >>>>> betsys@ra.cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz) wrote: Elizabeth> I don't mind debugging at home. But if I am buying Elizabeth> something which I am going to use to keep my firm's Elizabeth> financial records, or give demos to customers, I want to Elizabeth> pay money to someone who will guarantee me that their Elizabeth> product will perform as advertised, not someone who Elizabeth> promisis to start hacking if it breaks! Not too many software production companies guarantee that their product will perform as advertised... -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- himacdonald@watmsg.uwaterloo.ca watmath!watmsg!himacdonald
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,f8ba9bb4a8fd2d37 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-07-07 03:08:27 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!bonnie.concordia.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!dragon!himacdon From: himacdonald@watmsg.uwaterloo.ca (Hamish Macdonald) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Specialized software Message-ID: <1991Jul7.001514.28544@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Date: 7 Jul 91 00:15:14 GMT References: <1991Jul5.053513.15758@cs.sfu.ca>> <gcR8b <1991Jul6.090850.18499@cs.sfu.ca> <1991Jul6.222325.13344@cs.umb.edu> Sender: news@watdragon.waterloo.edu (News Owner) Reply-To: himacdonald@watmsg.uwaterloo.ca Organization: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 16 In-Reply-To: betsys@ra.cs.umb.edu's message of 6 Jul 91 22: 23:25 GMT