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From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (R S Rodgers)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: 1.666 patch (iD lies again..)
Date: 6 Sep 1994 22:39:51 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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Message-ID: <34ir3n$d94@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
References: <94090612105314741@rti.uucp.netcom.com>
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In article <94090612105314741@rti.uucp.netcom.com>,
Sean Clark <sean.clark@rti.uucp.netcom.com> wrote:
>R>OK, hint: If you miss a deadline that you previously set for two weeks away,
> >you don't set the next one (and the next one, and the next one, and the next
> >one) for two more weeks away.
>
>Unfortunately, the people who have control of when the software goes out
>(the programmers and testers) are NOT the ones sending out the
>deadlines. That's the Marketroids.
We're talking about ID, not Microsoft or Borland. They have, what, 7 employees
of which four are programmers and two are artists -- one CEO/marketer?
We're discussing the near-pathological "it'll be out in two more weeks"
cycle that Id has been locked into since December 10th, 1993.