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From: msohnius@novell.co.uk (Martin Sohnius)
Subject: Re: Unix for PC
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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 14:28:06 GMT
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In article <3cd8fo$ns5@fido.asd.sgi.com> lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy) writes:
: The original point was that Linux is less tested than the major vendor's
: releases. That may be true but the gap between Linux and a commercial
: release is much smaller than you seem to think.
The original point was my taking a cheap shot at some unfortunate dude who
described a particular piece of code as being tested by simply putting it
out in a 1.1.xx release "because neither Linus nor I could think of a way
to test it."
In my opinion, the gap between Linux and commercial releases is that, on
the whole, testing is boring, slow, repetitive, and highly unrewarding.
Hence very few people do it just for fun, hence you have to pay people
good money to do it, hence you won't get it in Linux. You also won't get
it if the bean counters start penny-pinching in commercial outfits. :=)
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