----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Krivis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 1:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION - Pay less attention to
adding features and more to fixing problems
> On Fri, 26 May 2000, Hoyt wrote:
>
> > With the current publicity about Win2k being shipped with LOTS of
> > bugs, shouldn't Mandrake get some good press for shipping with NONE?
>
> Having _no_ bugs is not possible. A distro that now takes up 2 CDs and
> includes code that wasn't written by MandrakeSoft guarantees that there
> will be some bugs. Hell, gcc and glibc have bugs, and everything is built
> on those. The bugs are built-in. :-)
>
Yes, but minimizing bugs is possible.
If there are documented bugs in the foundations of the OS, why isn't anyone
interested in getting them fixed? Well, it's because the developers are too
busy adding features because it's more fun than fixing bugs.
Hoyt
