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- From: kambic@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Bonus, Iniquus, Celer - Delegitus Duo)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Hey Congress, Let's Zero Out SCE Funding!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.103019.9332@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 10:30:18 EST
- References: <1992Nov19.192618.22594@pony.Ingres.COM> <1992Nov20.162236.7094@asl.dl.nec.com>
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- In article <1992Nov20.162236.7094@asl.dl.nec.com>, terry@asl.dl.nec.com writes:
- [...]
- > Let's put it more bluntly: I say that SCE is a expensive, miserable
- > failure that needs to be put out of its misery. Will the new congress
- > and/or administration please either cut out the funding for this charade,
- > or at least start doing some serious policing of where *their* "contract
- > money" is going?
- >
- > What's good for the goose is good for the gander -- and I say that if SEI
- > has taken it upon themselves to try to evaluate the industry with this
- > slipshod set of procedures, then by golly, someone in the right congress-
- > ional appropriations groups ought to return them the favor and do a really
- > blistering analysis of how effective SEI in general and SCE in particular
- > have been at doing *their* job right after five or six years of floundering.
-
- Terry raises some critical issues regarding how we measure the software
- industry. As readers know, I don't always agree with what he says, but these
- are a set of questions that *must* be brought into the open and addressed.
-
- George Kambic
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