In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/20/2006
at 03:39 PM, john gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>There are two ways to deal with errors in this business.
Three.
>One is to try to keep them secret, fixing them under the covers.
>The other is to call a shovel a spade as quickly as it has been
>identified in order to turn one's back upon it as quickly as
>possible.
The third way is to deny that there is an error for as long as
possible so as to avoid the expense of fixing it. Intel may not have
invented the third way, but they sure got a lot fo publicity for
implementing it :-(
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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