Firmware was Re: [Leica] Still no DMR

[dennis at hale-pohaku.com (Dennis Painter)]

Nobody said firmware is ever finished or perfect. There has to be a procedure
and control.

Management can bypass those procedures and controls at its peril.

Management can  decide to ship a pallet of bricks instead of floppy disk 
drives.

I have no idea what's going on inside Leica wrt management and engineering 
but
management obviously believes it's not ready to ship.

Dennis

PS: a fair metric for quality of firmware is the number of additional 
releases
made for bug fixes.



Frank Filippone wrote:

> I speak for others as well as myself when I say ...Firmware is NEVER
> finished.  It gets better, and it gets released when the boss tells the SW
> engineers to release it.  But it is never perfect.  Waiting for perfect is 
> a
> waste of marketing time.   That time is of most concern to a company that 
> is
> floundering financially.
>
> This was predictable.  The timing was predictable.  It will be released 
> when
> the bosses tell the SW engineers to release it.
>
> A Management decision, not a SW decision.