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. -- 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