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Subject: Re: The Privilege to Be an after-purchasing tester...

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 13:57:44 09/07/00

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On September 07, 2000 at 15:35:25, Marc van Hal wrote:

>On September 07, 2000 at 14:32:44, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>
>>Maybe you have missed this another an unavoidable way to become a tester. In
>>this you are not payed nor receive the software for free, but you pay to do the
>>test getting the program at 40 or more bucks the piece, you pay the guru that
>>will fix your computer after the new program almost burned your current
>>configuration -as happened to some people with CM5000, remember?-, you  pay the
>>time you waste trying to run the program, you pay the time expended sending
>>emails to get some answer, you pay the money your shrink ask after the sessions
>>you must go because of these frustration and you pay the taxes, all included.
>>How we could name this kind of testing?
>>Fernando
>
>I should not know a name for this but is this not something wich happens with
>about all computer programs?


Absolutely, and the worst sinner is Windows. Each time I think Gates became rich
producing this crap I feel a deep desire to get myself at his side and shoot him
in the face with my Beretta 7.65
Fernando

>This is the only industry you can do this without getting punshid for it
>In the automobile industry this would cost the firm milions of dollars.



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