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From: davecb@yunexus.YorkU.CA (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: (C News) limit filesize and inews
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Date: 6 Jan 91 22:57:20 GMT
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henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
| It is not a question of "they should fix their code so that mine will
| work":  they should fix their code so that *their customers'* code will
| work, because it is most unlikely that these bugs affect only my code.
| I don't care how popular these bugs are, they remain inarguably and
| unambiguously bugs.
|
| This is not an "ivory tower attitude".  Quite the contrary; [...]

   In a Real World (TM) company of my acquaintance, we had one poor schmuck
stuck with the job of saying ``don't you dare fix that in your module, it's
fred's bug and **he** has to fix it''.  He lasted several years, and the
projects he was tasked with tracking tended to work rather well.
   I wouldn't take the job for all the tea in china, mind you, but it was
a very real, commercial necessity.  I don't think it's ever shown up in the
learned journals...

--dave (Hi Brian!) c-b
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