[103686] in Cypherpunks
RE: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew James Gering)
Thu Oct 1 18:37:12 1998
From: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net>
To: "Cypherpunks (E-mail)" <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 14:06:55 -0700
Reply-To: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net>
Jim Choate wrote:
> I'd say the obvious one, the Unix code tree is more stable
> than the MS tree.
Sure, but does that mean the MS platform was less suitable than Unix, or
their MS platform programmers were inferior to their Unix counterparts.
I believe Netscape outsourced the Unix development, at least initially.
I would blame insufficient SQA at Netscape, and from what I've heard
that claim is justified.
Matt
