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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: SGI GNAT Question? (Long)
Date: 1999/03/05
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In article <7bomut$jst$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  bourguet@my-dejanews.com wrote:

> > I think the success of open source has been based on public
> > releases feeding back to the developers bug reports.
>
> I think the interest of a more open development is in the number of persons
> ready to help in other ways than just bug reports and testing. ACT may be
> perhaps underestimating this help, but I've no way to tell. And I know that
> I'd be of no value for this.

Good point. There's probably no way to guage it at all at this point, short of
actually going that way.

T.E.D.

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