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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Ada open source
Date: 15 Jun 2004 11:07:57 -0600
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In article <mailman.111.1087311542.391.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>, "Andrew Carroll" <andrew@carroll-tech.net> writes:
> A quote from slashdot:
> 
> "...There's some guy out there using ___ who wants to use something
> else, but can't because he needs one tiny feature that nothing else has.
> This is a major weakness of Open Source because since software is under
> constant development and bug fixing and security hole patching is
> priority, few programs ever become feature complete..."
> 
> What do you all think of that statement?

"Feature complete" is based on the project plan for a particular release.
Chasing features without a project plan, or being unwilling to withhold
features once they have been originally scheduled, leads to defects,
sometimes euphemistically described as "bugs".