Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!wucs1!wuphys!lel
From: lel@wuphys.UUCP (Lyle E. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The USENET Seal of Approval
Message-ID: <519@wuphys.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 88 01:40:10 GMT
References: <1002@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1529@sugar.UUCP> <5329@swan.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: lel@wuphys.UUCP (Lyle E. Levine)
Organization: Physics Dept., Washington U. in St. Louis
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In article <5329@swan.ulowell.edu> page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:
>karl@sugar.UUCP (Karl Lehenbauer) wrote:
>>What I'm thinking here is that maybe Commodore could do some similar
>>thing, giving the "Commodore well behaved seal of approval" to programs
>>that had passed some kind of test suite.
>
>Well, CBM won't do this (in my opinion), but it's a GREAT idea.
>
>We can (and should) do something with this.  One thing is to provide
>products a "USENET seal of approval," which means the product passed
>
>What would it take?  Somebody needs to coordinate the testing, by
>identifying people with unique configurations and/or specialists
>in particular fields (like performance analysis, user interface, etc).
>It also requires that manufacturers desire this testing be done on
>their products, and that they be willing to provide some number of
>copies to the testers.
>
>Comments?
>

I like the idea a lot.  Unfortunately, I seriously doubt it will
happen.  And if it does, people probably won't pay the "seal" much
attention.  However, if anyone starts such a thing,  I'd be willing
to at least be a tester.  I'm sick of obvious bugs in poorly written
commercial software!

It sounds like this would just be beta testing on a slightly larger
scale.

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