Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore Subject: Re: buglists etc. Message-ID: <1990Sep19.194542.7410@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 19 Sep 90 19:45:42 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 24 In article jdarcy@encore.com (Jeff d'Arcy) writes: >With that out of the way, I'd like to offer a suggestion just to see what >sort of reception it gets. I cannot change the way Encore does business, >but our customers can. People have suggested that we should publish a >bug list, and I've objected based on the inevitable "scariness" of some >OS bugs. How would people feel if Encore were to distribute a version of >the buglist, *knowing* that some of the scarier items had been omitted? >Would that be a sufficient demonstration of good faith? Remember that I >have nothing WHATSOEVER to do with whether such a plan gets implemented. > I would like to see such a list. But ... I would also like to see the scary stuff. You could email it to me marked confidential, and I would be willing to sign a non-disclosure agreement on such confidential reports. It might prevent my wasting my time with problems that are already known. Who knows, maybe we could help Encore solve the problems more easily if we have some help from them. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115. +1-815-753-6940