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From: korpela@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (Eric J. Korpela)
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Subject: Re: WinComm Demo - What would you want?
Message-ID: <1990Oct29.180103.5692@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 29 Oct 90 18:01:03 GMT
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In article <1990Oct27.230636.1527@sbcs.sunysb.edu> altman@sbstaff2.cs.sunysb.edu (Jeff Altman) writes:
>But the people on the net could hardly be described as having had 
>Beta Tested WinComm.
>And how do you know what the actual Beta Testers actually received.

The point is that there probably were no beta testers.  Judging from the
sheer amount of complaints, it looks like an untested piece of software
was released without consideration for those who would attempt to use it.
It's not the job of the prospective users to debug the program.  

I think synappsys will suffer for their lack of judgement.

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