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#Silent Revisions

    18-Mar-87 02:27:19
Sb: #Silent Revisions
Fm: Mike Berro 73267,3361
To: All
I didn't know that at least one company (one of the biggies) uses "silent revisions". They discover bugs, fix 'em, but don't tell anyone. Instead they might change the copyright notice ever so slightly (for example), so that they know which version is the newest. This does not, on the surface, seem like fair play. Is it a common practice? —Mike