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Subject:Re: Plagiarism vs Fixed Botches From:"Anthony Markatos" <tonymar -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:intrepid_es -at- yahoo -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Fri, 17 Mar 2000 06:19:04 PST
Tony Markatos responds to Andrew Plato:
Andrew, you missed my point. The work was NOT 98% done! It was a mess that
someone said was "98% done" just to deny their (or someone else's) mistake
and to try and throw stress onto me. (After all, what could be simpler than
doing the last 2%.)
I mean really - nobody is going to bring a new TW onto a project for which
only a ligitimate 2% of the work remains.
Tony Markatos originally said:
Truth be told, NOBODY ever completes 98% percent of a project (or any other
high percentage) and then stops. If a person is proud of their
work and is 98% done, he/she really wants to complete the project.
To which Andrew Plato responded:
Lots of projects are 98% done (or less) and are resounding successes.
Once again, it is more important to get to market with a product than putter
around for eons fixing every error.
In fact, if you went back and looked at ALL the big software products
released in the last 10 years - I would bet you could make a strong case
that these products were no where near "done" when they were released.
Tony Markatos
(tonymar -at- hotmail -dot- com)
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