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From: Nick_Janow@mindlink.bc.ca (Nick Janow)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: notice to car owners
Message-ID: <5729@mindlink.bc.ca>
Date: 4 May 91 03:09:18 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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ir230@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (john wavrik) writes:

[analogy of car problem complaints to Basis]

Basis is not a product designed for a software company's marketing managers,
nor is it a final product.  So far, the product is only on a drawing board, and
the designers are asking for advice on what should be added/removed.  All
comments are considered.

The next step, submitting it as a dpANS document, is analogous to building a
full-scale model.  This model is then to be test-driven by anyone and everyone
interested, to see where the problems are or where improvements could be made.
Test-drivers are asked to test it to the limits (and beyond); to try to make it
fail, so that the problems can be corrected before manufacturing begins.

Everyone was welcomed--and encouraged--to kibitz on the drawing board design
(or to join the design team).  We are all welcome--and asked/encouraged--to
test-drive the test model and to send in our complaints/comments.

If you wait until all of that is past and pick up a car in the showroom, and
then want to complain that the chrome-plating on the radio irritates you, you
have only yourself to blame.


ps.  Thanks John.  That was a good analogy (after corrections).  :)