bundling thoughts

[Sean]

On 14 Aug 2001, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> Sean <picasso@madflower.com> writes:
>
> > M$ will happily bundle free software with their product, provided it is
> > bug-free by their testing labs (costs money for testing, costs money for
> > the dev tools, etc etc, all payable to M$) and you PAY them to bundle it.
>
> "bug-free"?  How does MS ever ship any of their *own* software,
> given that criterion?  <g,d&r>

They don't chare themselves to do testing on their products, but they do
charge other people to have their products tested =) And I believe it is
on a time basis so if they find something, it needs to be fixed and
restested to be certified. =)

At least that was my understanding on how it works..