On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 05:46:17PM -0600, Jerry Kreps wrote:
On Thursday 25 January 2001 09:23, MaD dUCK wrote:
also sprach Cliff Sarginson (on Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:44:07AM +0000):
"I have recently read about a new form of software, that which is in a permanent state of beta release. Linux and Netscape are 2 good examples of this."
netscape sure, but the beta concept really doesn't apply to linux as you advocated it. i'd rather say it's netscape and micro$oft which are constantly in beta. linux is open source, the concept beta can't apply to it as it would to netscape...
martin
knocked over with one blow! :-)
Mmm. I suspect you may be taking the quote just a tad too seriously. For information I was installing OpenSSl at my work, and I read that comment in one of the files. The author said it applied to his SSL code as well... so now you know.. Cliff