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Subject: What If Nobody Cared?
Message-ID: <2286.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 27 Jan 91 22:36:18 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 10,  Topic 38
Message 11        Sun Jan 27, 1991
F.SERGEANT [Frank]           at 15:04 CST
 
 Phil Koopman writes:
 >Presumably, there will be enough time for this process to happen (a 
 >few months). Those who don't make an effort to actually use they new 
 >(proposed) standard for real work will not have earned the right to 
 >complain when the final version is issued.
  I'd just like to state my objection to the above and announce that I  will
not be bound by it.
  I do not think the "right to complain" needs to be "earned."  I  believe it
inheres in each human being.  In fact, if we use the  guideline of 'existing
practice', anyone has the right to complain  about anything he wishes. 
Naturally, others retain the right to *say*  someone else has no right to
complain, as that, in essence, is just  another complaint.
  You can even tell clients "test this program before you put it into 
production or don't complain to me about it not working right!" and it 
doesn't do any good.  If a bug appears while it's in production,  they'll
complain whether they tested as they "should have" or not.
  -- Frank
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