From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: INFO-ADA Digest - 12 Feb 1998 (#1998-8) - Bugs
Date: 1998/02/19
Date: 1998-02-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01bd3cc1$b5bc1980$LocalHost@xhv46.dial.pipex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.887377152@merv
I'm not disagreeing with anything that Robert says (in this post ;-), but I
would add that many software producers keep their bug lists secret, and
release software which has significant bugs in it without ever telling
their customers.
It seems to me that releasing a piece of software with any number of bugs
in it is perfectly decent, _provided_ that the paying customer is told
about the bugs in advance, and that all users are told about them with
receipt of the product.
It's the deception which is really immoral (on a practical level). I could
tell a few stories!
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Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote in article
<dewar.887377152@merv>...
[about the practicalities of releases with minor bugs]
>
> The reason it is worth noting these (rather obvious) observations is that
> to an inexperienced user, the idea of releasing software with known
errors
> seems worrisome!
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1998-02-12 0:00 ` INFO-ADA Digest - 12 Feb 1998 (#1998-8) Al Christians
1998-02-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
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