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From: drd@siia.mv.com (David Dick)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: open this package and you're stuck with it
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Date: 21 Feb 90 02:39:33 GMT
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nelson_p@apollo.HP.COM (Peter Nelson) writes:


>   Another larger question to ask is why this industry insists on
>   shipping beta-quality products as finshed products.

If software consumers and magazine reviewers weren't so
all-fired impressed with long feature lists maybe developers
could concentrate on quality not quantity.

However, as it is, any developer who produces a product with
a few well-thought-out and well-implemented features is guaranteed
to lose against the product with a long feature list; the length
of the bug list is irrelevant.

David Dick
Software Innovations, Inc. [the Software Moving Company (sm)]