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From: jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: IBM bug notification/update policy
Message-ID: <559@pan.UUCP>
Date: 14 Aug 89 19:37:18 GMT
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Reply-To: jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson)
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In article <8147@spool.cs.wisc.edu> luner@werewolf.CS.WISC.EDU (David L. Luner) writes:
>In various articles, everybody and their dog writes:
>>
>> "I'm unhappy with IBM's delivery of fixes" [ed.]
>>
>
>I am curious, both personally and as an IBMer, to hear what other vendors
>to support their code. I *don't* want this to become a "we want source"
>argument.

I don't want source.  I just want to know about bugs that have already
been discovered in my binaries, and fixes that are already available for
those bugs.  I don't want to have to waste my time re-discovering, and
tracking down, and documenting, and reporting, bugs that have already
been discovered, and tracked down, and documented, and reported, and
in many cases fixed.  My employers aren't paying me to do that.

>	1. If you *mail* me, I'll summarize

No thanks, I want this discussion to stay in an *open* forum.  If there
is anyone else who has anything to say, I want to see it.

- H-P sends out a listing of known bugs in HP-UX.  It is *very* thick,
  I've heard as much as several hundred pages, and it comes out pretty
  often, I've heard as often as monthly.

- Plexus (R.I.P) used to send out a software support newsletter from
  time to time, which included a list of known bugs in their O.S.

- A few years ago, when I worked for the Sun distributor in Switzerland,
  Sun used to send out technical bulletins with known bug lists.  I don't
  know if they do any more or not.  (From what I heard about SunOS 4.0,
  they would have had to hire a truck to deliver it to each customer...)

jw