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Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...)
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At 03:29 PM 4/18/97 -0600, Nate Williams wrote:
>> 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.

Bugs are a different banana...we're talking about major features...

You decide between Window 95 and NT by understanding what the product can
do and what is expected to be available in the foreseeable future. If you
had to 
reinstall the thing every 3 months there'd be a lot of people using
something else

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