> Was Marc IIRC. Anyway, most of our proposed features appear in time or
> with a 25-50% overrun. What's absolutely strong for free+open software.
> And moreover, almost every serious bug, that is fixable without
> destroying anything else, get's fixed in a couple of days or weeks. The
> reason for the latter is, that we have a fistfull of programmes who
> work for years now on the code. Some of us since the release from
> Berkeley. That are key developers, who know intuitively into what
> region of the code to dive if some strange misbehaviour is reported.
>
> So if Inprise really lost them, they have a severe problem.
Another _big_ issue is how clean the code is. MySQL, for example,
probably loses tons of people because their code is so poorly designed,
and just plain ugly to me.
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