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From: jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu (John Bruno)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Microsoft Support (or lack of)
Message-ID: <1990Sep6.032621.7506@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 6 Sep 90 03:26:21 GMT
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In article <2684@dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:
>In article <1990Aug31.142549.21662@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> west@turing.toronto.edu (Tom West) writes:
><I've bought 6.0, have found one code generation bug 
><through pure luck and am petrified that I am going to distribute another
><code generation bug that I haven't found in a commercial product.  
>
>You need a test suite for your product. If your livlihood depends on it,
>or lives do, you must test your product thoroughly, as you are responsible
>for it, not the tool vendors.

Are you saying that Microsoft is exempt from this rule? I would think a 
company that big would have a "test suite", right? But then again, their
livelihood isn't at stake, since everyone will buy their products, simply
because they're Microsoft.

---jb