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[Tony Spencer <tony AT tonyspencer.com>]

Michael didn't make any attempt to imply it is bug free.  All he said  
is that he's used it for years and hasn't run into any bugs.

I appreciated his opinion on a piece of software that has worked for  
him and didn't find Mr. Palmer's comments particularly helpful.  Of  
course Michael may not have run into an 'edge case' but I sincerely  
doubt he's interested in extensive QA testing on the product.

On Mar 5, 2007, at 2:13 PM, Tanner Lovelace wrote:

> On 3/5/07, Michael Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org> wrote:
> > On Mar 5, 2007, at 11:21 AM, Cristóbal Palmer wrote:
> >
> > > On 3/5/07, Michael Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org> wrote:
> > > > but in the years we've
> > > > used it have never encountered a single bug.  We've filed some
> > > > requests for new features, but never a bug.
> > >
> > > Then your company doesn't make great use of it, or you're lucky  
> > > enough
> > > to have never encountered an edge case. Neither case says that much
> > > about the software. If you haven't used it enough to see its flaws,
> > > you haven't used it enough to endorse it.
> >
> > Gosh, you know so much about it from so little information.
> >
> > > UNC-CH SILS Student -- ils.unc.edu/~cmpalmer
> >
> > That explains so much...
>
> Michael,
>
> Ad-hominem attacks not only contribute nothing to the discussion,
> they actively hurt it.  Please refrain from them.
>
> As a software engineer, myself, though, with almost 15 years
> of experience, and as someone who has set up and run several
> wiki setups, I have to agree with Cristobal.  If you haven't yet
> found bugs in a product, then you haven't looked hard enough.
> Software is too complex to not have any bugs at all.  I wish
> that were not true, but it is.  Your "endorsement" however,
> glosses over that and makes it seem like it's bug free.
>
> Now, I freely admit I've never used the product, and I make
> no judgment at all as to exactly how bug free it is, but I
> can guarantee that it is not completely bug free.
>
> Cheers,
> Tanner
>
>
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