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From: Ronald Cole <ronald@yakisoba.forte-intl.com>
Subject: Re: GDB Woes Continued...
Date: 1998/02/03
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dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> We also heard from our beta testers that it was working.

Sounds like a fundamental problem in your beta testing program.

> One thing this confirms incidentally is that the general ACT strategy of
> not releasing things publicly until they have been really well shaken
> down is a good one.

The only thing it confirms is your religious adherance to the
cathedral model of software development.  You have yet to attempt the
bazaar model (so far as anyone can tell).

<http://www.ccil.org/~esr/writings/cathedral.html>

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