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From: msohnius@novell.co.uk (Martin Sohnius)
Subject: Re: Unix for PC
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Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 14:54:12 GMT
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Mike Batchelor (mikebat@clark.net) wrote:
: And I can tell you that commercial products sometimes add new features of
: fixes in exactly the same way as described above for Linux. "Don't know
: if this will do the trick, but let's throw it at the beta testers, see if
: they yell." Of course, most people never see that going on, since
: commercial products are rarely developed in public. If they were, you'd
: see the same sort of things going on.
You are wrong. Commercial products don't get developed in public, but they
do get developed here. And the procedure you describe is not the one used.
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