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Quotes of the weekQuotes of the weekPosted Apr 10, 2009 19:22 UTC (Fri) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224)Parent article: Quotes of the week On Linus' 2nd comment:
But that's not the point. The point is that you barely had time to compile that thing, much less give it any testing. The whole "it compiles, it's perfect, ship it" mentality is _strictly_ only for me. you left off the next line: Quod licet Jovi, non licet bovi
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Quotes of the week Posted Apr 13, 2009 21:41 UTC (Mon) by roelofs (guest, #2599) [Link] And on the first:
The point is, that expectation that the BIOS returns 20 seems very unreasonable. BIOS writers tend to have been on pain medication for so long that they can hardly remember their own name, much less actually make sure they follow all the documentation. ...another pithy observation:
Because that's the only case where we can pretty much depend on BIOS writers get things right - if Windows doesn't boot when they get it wrong. As far as I can tell, that has always been the only real quality assurance for most BIOS'es. Greg
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