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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (18875)5/3/1998 4:13:00 PM
From: Bearded One  Read Replies (3) of 24154
 
When somebody from Peoria posts a bug fix, how do you know, without replicating the bug, exactly what bug is being fixed?
Usually the bug is of the form of a true error in the code that does
not cause a problem except under special conditions. Once you locate
the problem in the source code, it can be very obvious what is wrong
and what the fix is.

Consider this analogy: I am designing a car and I give out "beta"
cars to friends to test-drive. Someone tells me 'my car halted
on the freeway yesterday.' Unless I look at the car, I don't know
what happened. But suppose someone tells me 'my car halted on the
freeway and I checked it out and you're using too thin a wire for
the amount of power you're sending through it so it overheated
and broke.' I know to use a thicker wire.

Basically, finding the location of the error is the important part-- even if Netscape just logs the errors and does their own fixes, it goes much much faster than without getting the source code location of the error.

Re: multiple versions-- Yeah, I don't have much to back up my intuition that multiple versions won't be much of a problem.

And, perhaps the dumbest question of all: How will Netscape make money doing this?

You could ask that of Microsoft :). Look at it this way-- Netscape
so far has made a lot of money on stuff other than their browser. They made those sales in part because of the ubiquity of their browser. I believe that's the general argument.

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