full-disclosure - Re: what we REALLY learned from WMF

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Date: Fri Jan  6 13:29:17 2006
From: c0ntexb at gmail.com (c0ntex)
Subject: Re: what we REALLY learned from WMF

On 06/01/06, Gadi Evron <ge@...uxbox.org> wrote:
> I am just saying that we as an industry got used to False Positives,
> slow responses, etc. We should demand more and this situation proved it
> is possible.

I doubt your "industry" had anything to do with it. Someone running a
cost-out project probably discovered they could save a few 100k by
reducing support requests via call centers and email bandwidth if they
dropped it, and in return got themselves a nice PM / consolidation job
with an office, a view and a parking space..

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regards
c0ntex