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Chad R. Meiners wrote:

> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
> news:bsp2pt$epgut$3@ID-77047.news.uni-berlin.de...
> 
>>So, change the requirements, if you cannot fulfil them! (:-))
> 
> 
> Call me crazy, but I always thought that this was both the ethical and
> practical thing to do.  ;-) I not saying that you should change them
> silently, though.

In the case I described, the cost of even reviewing the requirement 
would have been huge compared to buying two or three dozen 19200 modems 
instead of 9600 baud modems.  By the time the system was fielded, the 
19.2k modems cost less than the 9600 baud modems had been priced at. 
Even one teleconference meeting would have cost more, but in this case, 
due to the classified nature of the material which resulted in the 
requirements, it would have had to be a face-to-face meeting.  It 
probably could have been piggybacked on another meeting, but as I said, 
why bother, the actual cost to upgrade the hardware was under $2000.

-- 
                                           Robert I. Eachus

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