The compulsiveobsessive nature of a cola nut

Jeremy Whiteley, chief executive officer at Promarketing Gear, said: "We were pretty surprised this morning to find that all of the email which arrived overnight had been deleted. Even more troubling was the fact that, according to GFI's US sales manager, they released this update without testing it! I guess they expect me and my IT staff to play the role of tester, regardless of the cost to my business We're reconsidering our reliance on GFI going forward."

Interesting about the comment on testing. I've always felt very strongly that the open-source world does a far better job of testing desktop & server software than proprietary companies do on the whole. I think that this is one of the major advantages of free software. I think I've only ever had one significant problem in a debian update, which was many years ago (bo), and involved a perl update which broke dselect-dpkg. Interestingly, even though I was pretty inexperienced with debian & linux at the time, it didn't take me very long to sort it out.

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