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From: paul@tut.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: conquest newsletter #2
Message-ID: <2033@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Fri, 20-Nov-87 17:15:21 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 20 17:15:21 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Nov-87 07:20:17 EST
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In article <353@gethen.UUCP> farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) writes:
< There is never an excuse for posting source for a program which crashes
< and burns during normal operation, as conquest does.  Never.  ...

Oh get a grip.  Real programs *ALLWAYS* have bugs.  Sometimes they are
small ones, sometimes large.  I defy you to name ONE single program,
of non-trival size, that did not have a single bug in it's first
version.  It never happens, not even for commercial programs.

Besides, you expect this person to bullet proof his program to the
level of software that is sold, and then give it to you for FREE?
Some programmers happen to have the support of some company to do
whatever they want to, others not.  If you think that everyone can be
so generous, you are dreaming... 

		 -- Paul Placeway
		    ...!cbosgd!osu-cis!tut!paul
		    paul@ohio-state.arpa, paul@cis.ohio-state.edu