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RE: FW: cygwin-1.dll long-time bug
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:03:47 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: FW: cygwin-1.dll long-time bug
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On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
> > According to Dave Korn on 4/18/2006 12:38 PM:
> >> [...] and it's probably not something that gets a whole load
> >> of testing in microsoft's QA dept.... ;)
> >
> > They have one? What are the job qualifications to become a member of
> > that dept, I wonder? I bet even a hippo could apply...
>
> I think you have it all wrong--they must have the best QA
> department in the world to get their software to the point
> it's at. It's obvious that the source code is written by a
> boatload of demented monkeys. The hippos are only used to
> keep the monkeys under control.
That means they need to drop the hippos on the monkeys, not on the
software...
Igor
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