Bernard Hill writes: | In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes | >while I'm one man in my back bedroom, the odd glitch might slip through. | | Yes. Of course I am in the same position. | | I've tried using beta testers but they are rarely fierce enough. | | So I fix bugs free and within hours normally: and the customers get a | free and immediate upgrade.
That's one of the main reasons that both shareware and open-source software are usually superior to what the big companies produce. That, plus the fact that the developers are usually also expert users. Recently, there have been a lot of discussions of the fact that commercial software is usually so crappy compared with what the "nobodies" produce. I've never thought there was any mystery there at all. In almost all corporate software development projects, I've been purposely kept away from the users. It's obvious to me what the result will be. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
