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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Bugs in the BSD sources ??
Message-ID: <1989Sep30.060807.15103@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1802@cooper.cooper.EDU>
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 89 06:08:07 GMT

In article <1802@cooper.cooper.EDU> hak@cooper.cooper.EDU (Jeff Hakner ) writes:
>	Are the BSD sources, archived @uunet, among other places,
>	the sources to actual, working, tested programs?

Uh, this may come as a surprise, but universities generally do not have
quality-control departments.  Alas.  And considering some of the screwups
that come out of places that *have* QC departments, like Sun, it should
not be surprising that free software is sometimes worth what it costs.
(Fortunately, it's *usually* worth more.)
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