gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore) (09/09/85)
In article <1194@brl-tgr.ARPA>, brett@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU (Brett Fleisch) writes: > What happened to the old days when people would pay you to find > bugs? What happened is that people started running Unix, which comes with as many bugs as you care to find, and no support. Since AT&T doesn't seem to do maintenance releases, preferring instead to generate an entirely new version of Unix every time they make a release, even if they do take the time to fix bugs (I don't know if they do), the fixes don't make it into customers' hands for many years -- until each manufacturer decides to upgrade from "system 1 release 0" (which they know and have hacked over til it mostly works) to "system 5 release 2 version 2" or whatever (which is an unknown).