open this package and you're stuck with it

[David Dick]

nelson_p at apollo.HP.COM (Peter Nelson) writes:


>   Another larger question to ask is why this industry insists on
>   shipping beta-quality products as finshed products.

If software consumers and magazine reviewers weren't so
all-fired impressed with long feature lists maybe developers
could concentrate on quality not quantity.

However, as it is, any developer who produces a product with
a few well-thought-out and well-implemented features is guaranteed
to lose against the product with a long feature list; the length
of the bug list is irrelevant.

David Dick
Software Innovations, Inc. [the Software Moving Company (sm)]