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Article: Bugs: "a change in what the market expects." (interview with BugNet editor Bruce Brown)(Interview)
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- Soft-Letter
- Article date:
- May 26, 1995
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Talk about catching a wave: Two weeks after launching a newsletter that reported on buggy software and hardware, BugNet editor Bruce Brown woke up to find that a glitch in Intel's Pentium processor had suddenly transformed defective code into a national scandal. Within six months, says Brown, the BugNet audience had grown (largely through CompuServe and newspaper syndication deals) to some four million readers a month.
Brown, who once authored a comic cult novel called "Dr. Whacko's Guide to Slow-Pitch Softball," takes software code quality very seriously. "Bugs and compatibility are going to be the software issues of the '90s," he insists. Brown assiduously ...