From: Francois-Rene Rideau (fare@tunes.org)
Date: Wed Apr 25 2001 - 16:00:04 MDT
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:58:33PM -0000, Robert Coyote wrote:
> As an ex software tester for MS, I can say MS only tests up to the point
> where the cost of test is not exceeded by some marketing goal, I personally
> know of quite a few "wont fix" bugs that will never be fixed because of
> cost and timing considerations.
This but confirms my section about disappearing services in my rant against
patents, whose arguments are valid against Information Protectionism in
general:
http://fare.tunes.org/articles/patents.html#disappearing
BTW, is there some kind of common extropian opinion about IP?
I'm collecting various articles against IP at the end of the above article...
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