At 10:35 AM 3/22/00 +0000, ron peake wrote:
>Dan
>In my opinion you have made your arguments well and almost everyone
>can agree with you on at least some, if not all, of your points.
>Having worked in R&D for almost 30 years I can understand the technician's
>quest for perfection.
>But the sad truth is, it is not obtainable, or at least not at a price
>that the consumer will pay.
>So a compromise is necessary between the need to obtain a return on
>expenditures and
>the quality of the shipped product. As long as the customer knows what
>trade-offs were made
>(newer kernels, emphasis on newer hardware etc) and if serious problems
>are acknowledged
>and then rectified by the product manufacturer rather quickly, then in my
>opinion it is difficult,
>perhaps even unfair, to complain very much.
I agree. I have to say though, since I use mandrake in a production
environment, I am not too crazy about upgrading from 6.1 at this point.
