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From: ajw@littlei.UUCP (ajw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: MWC 3.0
Message-ID: <236@gandalf.littlei.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 88 21:54:18 GMT
References: <2600@crash.cts.com> <162@bdt.UUCP>
Reply-To: ajw@.UUCP (Waldock)
Organization: Intel Corp., ISO Systems Development, Hillsboro, OR
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In article <162@bdt.UUCP> david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) writes:
>I personally think it is a good idea for MW to hold off the release if
>they have to.  I'd rather have a well-tested version that is 100%
>compatible and bug-free, than get a new version that breaks things
>and needs another update 3-weeks later.
>
>You flame them for being late, and you flame them if it's not perfect
>when it ships.  What can one do?

Now that Mr. Beckemeyer (a good guy) has made this extremely valid point
about Mark Williams Company (also pretty much good guys), maybe some
readers of this group will pause for the odd nanosecond before flaming
Atari (hiss the villain!!) for not having shoved "fixes" out of the
door while they were still warm on the coding pad.