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: 1025b4,1d8ab55e71d08f3d X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1efdd369be089610 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) Subject: Re: what DOES the GPL really say? Date: 1997/07/08 Message-ID: <5pthps$v0b$1@news.nyu.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 255516320 References: <5ph4g5$sbs$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <5pim4l$5m3$1@news.nyu.edu> Organization: New York University Ultracomputer Research Lab Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1997-07-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article Olivier.Galibert@mines.u-nancy.fr (Olivier Galibert) writes: >In article <5pim4l$5m3$1@news.nyu.edu>, Richard Kenner wrote: >>There's absolutely nothing wrong with pointing out that it's harmful >>to the GNAT community for pre-releases to be widely distributed. The >>FSF itself (and Richard Stallman personally) has an extremely strong >>similar view about pre-releases of GCC. > >With the immediate side effect that most people won't even try to fix >bugs which may already have been fixed. And most of the time don't even >bother to report them because of the "I'll try again in 6 months with >the new release and then I'll see" effect. This isn't a prudent course of action, since most bugs on a mature program such as GCC tend to be ones that have *not* already been discovered.