Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: att & osf
Message-ID: <1988Aug19.205150.23487@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <4964@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <3395@vpk4.UUCP> <1988Aug5.211217.21037@utzoo.uucp> <2843@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 88 20:51:50 GMT

In article <2843@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>Anyone with reason would conclude that it's in AT&T's financial interest
>(GAA, there's that DIRTY word again :-) to have quality code, and that poor
>quality code can only hurt AT&T.  If you're going to hint at a conspiracy,
>you're going to have to come up with other evidence than code bugs.

I'm not talking conspiracy, actually, just a combination of incompetence
and utter disregard for problems caused to anyone outside AT&T.  For example,
people have been having trouble with NULL pointers in System V for years,
but it's only now -- when partnership with Sun makes AT&T care about the
issue for its *own* purposes -- that something is being done about it.

Anyone with reason would indeed conclude that it's in AT&T's financial
best interests to have quality code.  This is a sad comment on the degree
of rationality found in AT&T management.
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Intel CPUs are not defective,  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
they just act that way.        | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu