[1724] in Release_Engineering
thoughts on compliments, history on ppc/8514
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Sep 28 08:38:59 1989
From: geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: rel-eng@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 89 08:38:21 EDT
thought you would find this interesting
--dan
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Date: 27 Sep 89 20:45:13 GMT
From: sgi!shinobu!odin!kahua.esd.sgi.com!paquin@BLOOM-BEACON.MIT.EDU (Tom Paquin)
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc.
Subject: Re: MIT bashing (deprecating same)
To: xpert@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU
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> This business about default visuals and the other business about "buggy"
> sample server code just go to underscore the fact that the people at
> MIT, DEC, IBM, HP, Sun, and, yes, Apple are creating a thing that is
> wonderful enough for thousands of people to take a crack at it. Many
> of them like it a lot. Others just can't see anything good to say, so
> they say bad things.
Something I learned a long time ago at IBM (of all places) is that the
quality of software is directly (*not* indirectly) proportional to
"maintenance" demands made on it. The better the software, the more
people use it, and the more they care about the nuances of its use.
Software of lesser usefulness or quality is quietly unused, or,
worse, tolerated for very short necessary bursts.
So take the bellyaching as a compliment! :)
( PS IBM took care of my problem by holding most of the X code I
wrote <ppc, ibm8514> as proprietary, so people can't muck with it,
so I never got complaints. Interesting strategy. I also never got
free repairs by the ever-so-eager public...)
Opinions are mine, not SGI's
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