CompuServe Messages

I congratulate you and your company on such an attitude. Unfortunately, it is almost directly opposite of what is perceived as normal human behavior. Most humans, seeing that the OS conflicts with their product, would see the new OS as a threat to their livlihood (the product) and react in a manner so as to defend that livlihood. There is nothing wrong with this attitude, as it is perfectly normal, but it is the reason that conflict of interest laws and policies are in effect throughout industry and government. By using humans who have a vested interest in seeing that the new OS is compatable with THEIR product (read livlihood), the probability of having the human reaction to conflicts turn against changes, good or bad, increases dramatically. That is my objection to exclusively using developers as testers. Bill, K3OZM