From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a60e2f124b42a104 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Nick Roberts" Subject: Re: INFO-ADA Digest - 12 Feb 1998 (#1998-8) - Bugs Date: 1998/02/19 Message-ID: <01bd3cc1$b5bc1980$LocalHost@xhv46.dial.pipex.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 326427215 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <199802130604.WAA06276@mail.easystreet.com> <34E3F577.4BAB@easystreet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Organization: UUNet UK server (post doesn't reflect views of UUNet UK) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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! == Nick Roberts ================================================ == Croydon, UK =========================== == ================ == Proprietor, ThoughtWing Software ========== == Independent Software Development Consultant ====== == Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com ==== == Voicemail & Fax +44 181-405 1124 === == == == I live not in myself, but I become == === Portion of that around me; and to me == ==== High mountains are a feeling, but the hum == ======= Of human cities torture. =========== -- Byron [Childe Harold] Robert Dewar wrote in article ... [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!