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- From: alexis@panix.com (Alexis Rosen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Subject: Re: Reporting bugs in A/UX
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.054029.7176@panix.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 05:40:29 GMT
- References: <1992Sep1.151614.19135@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
- Lines: 35
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- dundas@chip.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (John Dundas) writes:
- >*Flame on*
-
- >What does it take to report a bug in A/UX and get any sort of acknowledgment?
- >I reported a (suspected) bug in A/UX 2.0.1 and 3.0 both to this news group
- >and to reports.aux@applelink.apple.com. I haven't gotten any reponse at
- >all. Did Apple even receive the report? I have no way of knowing since
- >there was never any acknowledgment.
-
- >*Flame off*
-
- *Flame On*
-
- Forget it. You're wasting your time. If you're really lucky, one of the
- engineers who knows that area will hear, in which case s/he'll probably
- try to fix it, _if_ the time is available (according to group leaders or
- whatever they're called), and may actually let you know and have a patch
- before 3.1 or 4.0 comes out.
-
- Apple has already blown it in the Unix market so badly that there's no chance
- they'll ever succeed, unless possibly the PowerRISC machine is an incredible
- hit. One of the reasons for this is that they don't behave like a "big Unix
- vendor" ought to. And bug reports are a prime example of this kind of problem.
-
- *Flame Off*
-
- A/UX's biggest problem is that they work so hard on future versions that they
- never have time for the current version. This has been true since V1.0. The
- probable cause of this is a significant lack of manpower.
-
- --
- Alexis Rosen Owner/Sysadmin,
- PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC.
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