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From: dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen)
Subject: Re: Cost of 386bsd
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In article <CGD.93Feb7155606@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
>
>while the net seems a great support service, if a company is
>using a product to develop with, or whatever, and they find
>a bug in that product, "oh, well, it looks like it could be the
>'foo' problem, but you'll have to find it on your own" just
>doesn't cut it...
True. But I still thinks it's better than the one you get from
commercial vendors: "It looks like it could be a foo problem.
We'll get to it in our next release. Maybe."
Or do you have experience with commercial vendors doing anything
useful with bug reports?
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