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Date:      Fri, 18 Apr 1997 15:29:51 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), dennis@etinc.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...)
Message-ID:  <199704182129.PAA24797@rocky.mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199704182117.OAA02823@phaeton.artisoft.com>
References:  <199704181522.JAA21382@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199704182117.OAA02823@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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> The commercial organizations I've dealt with (and in) must schedule
> for "minimal feature set", "expected feature set", and then "stretch
> goals" over and above that.

Then the organizations you dealt with are *very* different than the
organizations I've dealt with.  I've found that the FreeBSD 'release
engineering/software engineering' cycle is orders of magnitudes better
than REAL (tm) companies I've worked for and with.

> If they told you it was supposed to be fixed in the next product, and
> then it wasn't, you'd scream blue murder.

Happens more often than not in my experience.  The behavior of the bug
has changed, but the bug still exists.




Nate



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