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From: Lee Schumacher <lees@redbrick.com>
Subject: Re: Parallelism
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Peter da Silva wrote:
> 
> In article <2933267635@hoult.actrix.gen.nz>,
> Bruce Hoult <Bruce@hoult.actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
> > It doesn't really matter whether software engineering is hard or easy, the
> > market in the last ten years has shown that once you get the machine
> > stable enough to run for a couple of hours for the average user, it's
> > better to spend any additional money/resources on more features and
> > marketing than on getting out the remaining bugs.
> 
> Man you are *so* cynical. If that was true, why, how could anyone possibly
> compete with a company that ships alphas as products and does quality control
> by random consumer testing...
> --
> </peter>

An excellent question.   Microsoft's competitors have wondered
about that for years ;-).

 Lee.
