From: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 17:16:07 +0800
To: "Cypherpunks (E-mail)" <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Subject: RE: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd)
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Jim Choate wrote:
> I'd say the obvious one, the Unix code tree is more stable 
> than the MS tree.

Sure, but does that mean the MS platform was less suitable than Unix, or
their MS platform programmers were inferior to their Unix counterparts.
I believe Netscape outsourced the Unix development, at least initially.
I would blame insufficient SQA at Netscape, and from what I've heard
that claim is justified.

	Matt