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From: verne@pc.gcs.litton.com
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Subject: Re: DOD-STD-1679A(Navy)
Date: 11 Mar 1995 04:22:45 GMT
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>   Jeff Seigle <jseigle@csci.csc.com> writes:
>  In article <3jncg0$7vu@butch.lmsc.lockheed.com> l107353@cliffy.lfwc.lockheed.com (Garlington KE) writes:
>  >Doc Elliott (helliott@losat.redstone.army.mil) wrote:
>  >: ?!?!?!?!  The Navy actually will accept a CSCI that has KNOWN problems?
>  >: And yet they still get more of the DoD budget than we do.....
>  >
>  >To be fair, I think all U.S. military services have a waiver and deviation
>  >process that permits accepting CSCIs with known problems.
>  
>  Every commercial software product you buy has "known problems."  Trouble is,
>  you're not the one who knows about them.  Wouldn't you rather have a list
>  of the problems?  It is not unheard of to deliver software with known 
>  problems to the DoD or anyone else, as long as you come clean about it (and
>  fix it later).
>  
>>>>


Well said!